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Tag: Album
ALBUM REVIEW: Catholic Action – ‘Celebrated By Strangers’
Three years after a very tight, very eloquent debut, eclectic Glaswegians Catholic Action are back with a second album that confirms some of the trends from their first outing while attempting in some ways something entirely different. In its eleven tracks, short and sweet for the most part – the longest song, perfectly situated at […]
In Conversation With… OCTOBER DRIFT
After five years on the scene, October Drift released their largest body of work yet, with January’s drop of long-awaited debut album, Forever Whatever. A high octane melange of grunge, hard rock, pop hooks and shoegaze; the songs enclosed offer a focussed lens on the band’s career to date: from the revelrous ‘Oh the Silence’ […]
ALBUM REVIEW: October Drift – ‘Forever Whatever’
Debut albums often combine a collage of songs written and collected over a period of time, stitched together with the eagerness of infancy and the latitude to dream big, a first record can be anything it wants to be. Here in 2020, after many years of building the mechanics through endless streams of touring and […]
2019 IN REVIEW: Bitter Sweet Symphonies’ Albums of the Year
It’s been a year of double albums, retrospectives and optimistic introductions—in between we’ve set the record straight with Taylor Swift, campaigned for change with Greta Thunberg (via The 1975 and Fatboy Slim), and gone back to basics with Bruce Springsteen.
In Conversation With… YONAKA
From day one Yonaka embraced originality, displaying a fierceness that is breathtaking to behold and a formidable talent that any fresh-faced band would seize if they had the chance. Brighton has been the band’s home base from the start, and it seems that it was always meant to be like that, offering the four-piece freedom […]
ALBUM REVIEW: Mr Ben and the Bens – ‘Who Knows Jenny Jones?’
Despite labeling themselves “psychedelic indie-pop”, the Sheffield-based indie project Mr Ben and the Bens is much more than that, and the range and depth of their sound is on full display in their new album, Who Knows Jenny Jones? When we talk about music, we often describe it in terms of genres, of influences, of, […]
ALBUM REVIEW: Great Grandpa – ‘Four of Arrows’
Two years after their last release, Seattle indie rockers Great Grandpa are back with something that sounds decidedly different from their previous effort, deceptively softer at face value but with a dark depth immediately underneath that surfaces in more than one point of this Four of Arrows, a long player getting its name from a […]
ALBUM REVIEW: FEET – ‘What’s Inside Is More Than Just Ham’
There are artists who approach their first long-player cautiously and others who like to go in all guns blazing, and even on the very first listen it quickly becomes apparent that FEET are definitely part of the latter group. The Coventry band’s debut album, What’s Inside Is More Than Just Ham, more than keeps the promise […]
Jumping Track // The Route to Broken Hands’ Sophomore Album
The next steps following a debut album can be tricky to figure out, after tour ends and the crew return home, what’s left at the end of it all? Scattered, half-processed memories of dingy backrooms from dive bars the world over, images of riotous nights rendered forever in casts of amber, cities of enthusiastic faces […]
ALBUM REVIEW: Plague Vendor – ‘By Night’
Plague Vendor are back, and their new release, the aptly titled By Night, is an uncompromising, restless ride that manages to feel raw and scathing in spite of being, at a closer look, clearly very finely tuned. The ten tracks of the album are, for the most part, uniform in length, most of them ranging […]
ALBUM REVIEW: Lostboycrow – ‘Santa Fe’
Sometimes to find your path, you need to get away. There’s truth to b found in the belief that your surroundings influence your state of mind, your thoughts, your experiences, your way of living. Harking back to the very foundations of Lostboycrow, when Chris Blair uprooted life from Portland to Los Angeles, he found his […]
In Conversation With… JOEL BAKER
We’ve all heard the prescribed notions of what a singer-songwriter is and should be, but basics are basics and it is time to clear the slate. Every artist deserves to be heard fairly, few find success and few are successful but many have talent. Joel Baker is one of the latter. A pure talent. His […]
ALBUM REVIEW: Fontaines D.C. – ‘Dogrel’
There are albums whose release we expect with a very high degree of trepidation, as the (temporary, but no less important for that) end point of a trajectory that we have followed with a lot of emotional commitment. The stakes are always high in that kind of situation – even a partial disappointment would be […]
ALBUM REVIEW: JAWS – ‘The Ceiling’
Birmingham trio JAWS embark on an attempt to recreate the mood of our times – alienated, worried but hopeful, detached but grappling with intense feelings – through music in their third studio album, The Ceiling.
ALBUM REVIEW: ViVii – ‘ViVii’
Listen up, folks. We might have a new addictive band in town. Meet ViVii. Dream-pop trio extraordinaire hailing from music wonderland, Sweden.
ALBUM REVIEW: FLING – ‘Fling or Die’
After causing some well-deserved buzz with their single releases, alternative quintet FLING are now soon to release their first long player, Fling or Die. The Bradford outfit self-describes as ‘wonky pop’, but their sound is pleasantly hard to pinpoint, drawing from psychedelic rock, glam, and a hint of blues, and their aesthetic is an updated […]
ALBUM REVIEW: YAK – ‘Pursuit of Momentary Happiness’
If their first record Alas Salvation had caught – for good reason – the attention of both critics and audiences as something bold and new that was worth keeping an eye on, this second release by Yak makes it very clear that they are far more than a simple passing glitch. On the contrary, they […]
ALBUM REVIEW: Queen Zee – ‘Queen Zee’
Welcome to the dawn of The Age of Zee. It is no understatement to suggest that listening to the debut album of Queen Zee could change your life for the better. For one, you’re going to be treated to one of the finest musical releases in quite some time providing enthralling, suffocating, dangerous rock music […]
In Conversation With… NIGHT FLIGHT
For a band as musically understated as Night Flight, they’ve certainly had an action packed few months. Their most recent EP was well received, and their debut album is getting equally positive praise, and rightly so. A collection of their previous releases, seasoned with a few subtle extra cuts like ‘Medicine’ and ‘Forever And,’ it […]