It’s not a great name, no getting around that. But the first forays from this Kentucky-based duo are excellent. You might expect aggression and relentless intensity from a former member of Breather Resist and Young Widows but Nick Thieneman and partner Amber have combined to create dark ambience, melancholy rock and thick funereal dirges. Their debut album, ‘Dark Woven Light’ […]
Read moreThe boys are back in town? Maybe, just maybe, Maybeshewill might be back. The Leicester outfit posted the video below midweek and, for the minute, that’s it. Whether it means more live shows, (maybe an ArcTanGent headline slot?) or, whisper it, new music, remains to be seen, but right now i’ll take what I can get.
Read moreLondon four-piece Modern Rituals have made a video for new song, ‘The Bull Never Wins’. The yowling, prowling ripper is the first taste of their second record, ‘This Is History’, due out 20.03.20 via Holy Roar. You can preorder it now!
Read moreLakes might have chosen an unremarkable yet oft-used moniker but it’s pretty much the only foot the Watford six-piece have put wrong since forming in 2017. Their debut full-length, each track named after a lake, natch, is polished emo for fans of TTNG, Owen, and Into It, Over It. Glockenspiel!
Read moreAhead of the release of their debut album ‘Don’t Remember Me For This’ on October 25th via Golden Antenna, Philadelphia-based trio Timelost have released a suitably raucous video for the track ‘Heart Garbage’. Get into it.
Read moreOne-man studio-based post-rock passion-projects tend to power-surge my love-buzz. Kota Kota, the chosen moniker of Leeds-based artist Michael Holmes, is no exception. His debut album is a bass-heavy, propulsively-paced many-textured journey for fans of late Maybeshewill, early 65daysofstatic, and dreams of flying.
Read moreEven if you’re not familiar with Andy Stack’s name, there’s a chance you’ll know his work. He has spent the last decade as one half of indie-folk duo Wye Oak, toured with members of The National, performed with Lambchop and Shearwater and more, and composed music for film and television. Now though, he has struck out on his own as […]
Read moreThe 1990s are well and truly back. And while this is terrible news for, well, pretty much everything, a thin sliver of hope can be found in modern bands taking inspiration from that decade’s now-classic post-hardcore sounds. Austin, Texas outfit Out of Body aren’t the only ones doing so but they stand out- especially on new EP, ‘Son Sun’- by […]
Read moreWe Lost the Sea have been banging out ace post-metal for a decade now but if you haven’t heard them before then there’s no better time to tune in. It’s just been announced that Holy Roar will be releasing the Australian outfit’s next album ‘Triumph & Disaster’ in the UK. The rest of the world will be covered by Translation […]
Read moreAhead of their new album ‘Rust on the Gates of Heaven’, out on Deathwish on the 12th of July, Jacob Bannon’s Wear Your Wounds project have made a mean and moody video for standout track ‘Shrinking Violet’. Black and white just like we like it around here.
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