If you aren’t aware of The Drowns by this point, you’ve probably spent the last few years trapped in a caved-in basement, or are some
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7in and EP round-up February 2024
Not done one of these for a fair old while. In fact, a bunch of this stuff I’d already written and forgotten about. Just rediscovered
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The Drowns – Lunatics (Pirates Press Records, 2022)
Lunatics is the new EP from Seattle’s The Drowns. It’s a 6 track EP too, which is cool. Y’know, like a proper EP used to
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7in and EP round-up: January 2022 (part 1)
The Drowns – Know Who You Are 7in (Pirates Press Records) There’s an odd affinity between Oi! And Glam Rock, I didn’t connect the dots
Read morev/a – For Family and Flag Volume 1 Sampler (Pirates Press Records, 2020)
I don’t know how old you are, but when I was getting into music the internet was in it’s infancy and we couldn’t just listen
Read moreThe Drowns – Under Tension (Pirates Press Records, 2020)
Now then. After an inauspicious return to reviewing “relatively current” releases, and the first one of 2020 with Beach Slang’s disappointing (on many levels) recent
Read moreRebellion Punk Festival 2019 recommendation: Spoilers
Seemingly I’m either too uncool or too non-adventurous to go to the Rebellion Punk Festival. But from the comfortable position of sitting on my arse
Read more7in and EP roundup July 2019 (part 3)
The Drowns – The Sound 7in (Pirates Press Records) If you somehow slept on it, The Drowns released their debut full length, ‘View From the
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Kicked in the Teeth – Patient State / One Way Street (self-released, 2019) A semi-super group of sorts, this. Not that they are semi-super or
Read moreDown and Outs – Keep Walking 7in (Brassneck Records, 2019)
Alright punks. Liverpool’s Down and Outs have been around for a fair whack of time now. They released their first LP, Boys From The Blackstuff
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