Moderate Rock

A weird month, this. February often finds a new year gearing into full swing. It’s a little grey and rainy, sure, but it’s still a time to look back and spring forward. No thanks to tragedy, politics, and the powers that be though, this time around- at least in the UK- time seems to have stood still.

Thank the gods for new music then, an ever faithful measure and mark for progress, a spark in the gloom. And my word, what sparks- from ferocious UK hardcore to Japanese noise metal, striking classical oddness to powerful post rock, and beyond- I hope you find something to love.

• ALEXISONFIRE- ‘Familiar Drugs’
• THE DAMNED THINGS- ‘Cells’
• CATORCE- ‘Caribdis’
• RED HARE– ‘Little Acts of Destruction’
• SPIELBERGS- ‘NFL’
• BLANKET- ‘Beacons’
• SHY BOYS- ‘Dim the Light’
• BLACK BELT EAGLE SCOUT- ‘Keyboard’
• TEEN DAZE- ‘Endless Light’
• 36- ‘Night Rain’
• YVETTE YOUNG- ‘Reminisce’
• BEARTHOVEN- ‘Gas Station Canon Song’
• LUSTMORD- ‘So Be It’
• MAJOR KONG– ‘The Mechanism’
• NEW IDEA SOCIETY- ‘Now Is Here’
• IRK– ‘Insect Worship’
• INTER ARMA- ‘Citadel’
• DOWNFALL OF GAIA- ‘The Grotesque Illusion of Being’
• ZAO– ‘Transmission 2: I Saw the Devil’
• SHIN GUARD- ‘2007’
• ENDON– ‘Heart Shaped Brain’
• HAIR PULLER- ‘Old Friend’
• MASTIFF– ‘Bubonic’
• ITHACA- Impulse Crush’
• MINORS- ‘Consumed’

Hey, at least I’ve stopped writing 2018 when I mean 2019!