Smashing Pumpkins - Apathy & Exhaustion

Fred Thomas – Changer (Polyvinyl, 2017)

OK, OK. Yes, here I go again. Another Polyvinyl album. I can hear you already: “But Clara, we know you are a sycophantic Polyvinyl fangirl.

So I hear about Pijn and they get compared to a few bands that make me prick my ears up, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai,

I’d not been familiar with Doe. I’d heard the name in passing, and when my old pal Carpet mentioned he wanted to review their new