Tag: 2022
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Sports Team: “Gulp!” album review – vivid in detail, chaotic in all the right places
There’s something extra when it comes to likes of Sports Team. Leaving round-the-block queues for Moth Club ambition and Mercury prize nominations aside, they have pizzazz by the pint either, through their explosive live state or their wired slabs of guitar pickings that are just out to have a load of fun. Here for a […]
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YOUR NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: 23/09
With a world strife in post-punk and hard-edged rock, we take a look at this weeks’ NEW MUSIC FRIDAY, with a whole host of new showings people are getting into already. A bristle of a barbed wire hook there and a shuddering jolt of sludge-rock, Kid Kapichi are tearing up the place with their new […]
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Sunflower Bean: “Headful of Sugar”album review – an ecstasy rush of feel-good indie pop
Designed to be played loud with the windows down, this is Sunflower Bean. A spectrum of feeling and flavour and… as life walks over us – this is us getting over it. Swimming into a pool full of coffee shop alternative pickings and misfit playlists, “It’s ALT-good!”, you could argue that the surfy, wishy-washy scene […]
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Porridge Radio: “Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky” album review – a vital voice for the alternative
In quiet moments, it’s important to be reflective and immersed in your own drive-in cinema. When real life gets a little too overwhelmed and your incessant overthinking becomes a problem, you need a catharsis of potency, either as an outcry or as therapy. One band rifling through the chemistry set, looking for a potent concoction […]
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The Amazons: “How Will I Know If Heaven Will Find Me?” album review – stadium-ready rockers sticking to formula
The third album brings about familiarities in arena-sized rock, stabilising their festival fixture. We’ve become all too familiar with the saying, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” and many a band stick with it till the cows come home. We’ve had many alternates veer off the worn path, with the likes of Arctic Monkeys […]
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