And So I Watch You From Afar have announced details of their next record. The Northern Irish outfit’s seventh (!) album will be called ‘Jettison’. And it’s not just an album- it’s a 50 minute journey of music and images inspired acclaimed visual artist Sam Wiehland. In the band’s own words it’s “a multimedia album… a sonic exploration spread across […]
Read moreI feel like I say it every year, but this year it feels worth saying louder than ever. THESE ARE NOT THE BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR! There’s no way I (or I believe anyone) could write a list that could claim to be correct about that kind of personal, indefinable, impossible thing. There’s been too much music, and not enough […]
Read moreI hope you find something to love. STATES OF NATURE- ‘Carry Along’ BLOC PARTY- ‘Traps’ DRUG CHURCH- ‘Million Miles of Fun’ SUNTITLE- ‘Royal Blue’ WEBBED WING- ‘For Real’ GLEUE- ‘Glow’ PARTING- ‘Jesse Eisenbird’ I FEEL FINE- ‘The Ladder’ FAILURE- ‘Headstand’ GATES- ‘If I Could’ DEADRAMONES- ‘Still Life’ PLIOCENE- ‘Estuaries’ LOST HORIZONS- ‘Florida’ (Feat. KookieLou) ALLISON LORENZEN- ‘Chalk’ (Feat. Midwife) RADIOHEAD- […]
Read moreBloc Party are back! The band’s first new song in six years, ‘Traps’, debuted today, and it rips. Don’t just take my word for it though, check the official audio video below. Sounds to me like a heady combination of everything the band have done before now- including a big riff, rolling bass, and some satisfyingly weird lyrical tics. ‘Traps’ […]
Read moreSpice are so damn good. Their debut album was identifiably punk- powered along by driving drums, catchy riffs, and the sneer of erstwhile Ceremony frontman Ross Farrar- but it was much more than that. There was a rough, ready, improvised vibe. There was a total, brilliant disregard for genre conventions. There was violin! This new two-song EP doubles down on […]
Read moreMuch-missed UK hardcore outfit, Bastions, are back. The Welsh four-piece announced their hiatus in 2015, and I remember it feeling sudden and premature at the time. They left behind a handful of EPs, a half hour of vivid, gritty hardcore punk in the shape of their only full-length, and a ton of promise and potential. But to be fair, they […]
Read moreFrom punk to pure ambient, from Scottish shoegaze to Canadian indie, and from a song about dying alone to a track about never ever quitting, I hope you find something to love. SUNSTINGER– ‘Shadows’ BLEED– ‘Silver’ GLEAN– ‘Faceless’ ANXIOUS- ‘Call from You’ TREE RIVER- ‘Lotus’ EVERY TIME I DIE– ‘Thing with Feathers’ CHURCH GIRLS- ‘Vacation’ ROPES OF NIGHT- ‘Perfect Prison’ […]
Read moreEvery Time I Die defy. The boys from Buffalo have been riffing rebellious and beating the odds since 1998 of course, but ‘Radical’ is something else. They haven’t picked that album title for nothing. Every Time I Die continue to defy their lifespan. This is their ninth album in 20 years. Those are unprecedented numbers for a band that play […]
Read moreI love The Wrens. It’s not an exaggeration to say that hearing ‘This Boy Is Exhausted’ changed my taste in music. But, in a tale as old as time, The Wrens don’t necessarily love each other. The band haven’t released new music in almost 20 years but were apparently working on a new album as recently as 2019. Now though, […]
Read moreSunstinger say they want to sound “as loud as possible” here, on their debut EP. And I get it, conventional wisdom suggests the shoegazey sound they’re going for works best at speaker-busting volume, and with every sonic space filled with noise. But the Fife four-piece have a knack for a hook that they shouldn’t ignore, and actually sound most compelling […]
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