shield recordings - Apathy & Exhaustion

Custody – 3 LP (Brassneck Records / Shield Recordings / Sell The Heart Records / Combat Rock Industry / My Ruin, 2024)

April 3, 2024 Tony Maher Record Review

Cast your mind back if you will to the cusp of Covid lockdown. You may recall I reviewed Custody’s second LP, innovatively titled ‘2’. You

Bear Away – A Drastic Tale of Western Living (Brassneck Records / Shield Recordings Waterslide Records, 2022)

October 24, 2022 Tony Maher Record Review

There’s a certain thing about shit towns in the North of England. They have a weird tendency to spawn decent bands in a way that

Custody – II LP (Brassneck Records / Shield Recordings / Combat Rock Industry, 2020)

March 7, 2020 Tony Maher Record Review

Custody are from Finland, and describe themselves thusly: “We make melodic music that makes us happy. We sound like Sergie Loobkoff having a knife fight

Astpai –True Capacity (Jump Start Records / Shield Recordings, 2018)

July 2, 2018 Tony Maher Record Review

Astpai is a name I’ve been hearing for a good few years now. They are yet another example of a band I didn’t get around