Tag: album review
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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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Kid Kapichi: “Here’s What You Could Have Won” album review – an explosive behemoth of raw punk
Earlier this year, four twenty-somethings from Hastings were rewarded for their graft with a record label signing. Welcome to the new world, The new normal, Look at us queuing up, so formal: From independently releasing their fittingly titled-debut, This Time Next Year in 2021, as predicted, Kid Kapichi ((it’s Kapee-chee) are now releasing their successive […]
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Dead Pony: “War Boys” EP review – rousing debut for Glaswegian rockers
Get ready to roll out the ragged carpet of red-hot, there’s a new band in town. This is Dead Pony. A collective hailed by the bold and brazen of Sam Fender and Wolf Alice – with a headline show in London’s new flavour, The Lower Third to back up claims – Dead Pony are appearing […]
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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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