ToN: I’d like to welcome Lukas on board for collaborating on this article (his words are in normal typeface, mine are in italic), and thank
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Video premiere: Incisions – Mine to Lose (TNS Records, 2022)
Seemingly not content with having unleashed a second LP (Bliss) of furious hardcore punk upon the unsuspecting (or totally suspecting depending on how clued in
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Incisions – Bliss (TNS Records, 2021)
Demotivated. Demoralised. What’s the point in even trying. That seems to be the recurring theme of my life at the moment when it comes to
Read more7in and EP round-up: January 2021
Custody / Bear Away – split lathe cut 7in (Brassneck Records / Disillusioned Records) Custody (Helsinki, Finland) and Bear Away (Scarborough, UK) are releasing a
Read moreHarijan – s/t (TNS Records, 2020)
Harijan have been around for ages, so long in fact that they’ve had a hiatus. Having a hiatus was all the rage while ago, just
Read moreStoj Snack – Life, Death and Everything in Between (TNS Records et al, 2020)
“The songs on this album seem to circle around family and relationships in the modern, societal structures and how we, the inhabitants of these systems,
Read more7in and EP round-up: July 2020 (part 5)
Shit the bed. I’ve never actually done 5 of these things in a month before. Well, here we are, I suppose. Let’s get to it,
Read more7in and EP round-up July 2020 (part 4)
The Domestics / Pizzatramp split 12in (Kibou Records / TNS Records / Sick World Records, 2020) By now, these bands should need no introduction, so
Read moreFollow Your Dreams – The Half Life of Teaspoons (TNS Records, 2020)
Follow Your Dreams are from Manchester, and are formed from the ashes of the now defunct Rising Strike. Their singer / vocalist Kaz is apparently
Read moreHaest – Anomie (TNS Records, 2020)
I’ve seen the name “Haest” knocking around for a while, and people seemed to be of the opinion that they were good. Hence, I was
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