• Albums of the Year- 2025

    Music is amazing. Music is powerful, beautiful, myriad, a marvel, my favourite thing, and, genuinely, life-saving. And there’s so much of it, so much music to fall in love with, […]

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  • MILDRED- ‘Mildred’

    While a lot of new records arrive on cue, fresh and clean, at the end of an extensive promotional campaign to an expectant and prepared public, others seem to appear […]

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  • EMPTY COUNTRY- ‘Empty Country’

    Joseph D’Agostino has been through hell. And of course that doesn’t just mean the injustice of his former band, the terrific but terribly-named Cymbals Eat Guitars, never getting the credit […]

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#MODERATEROCKMIXTAPE- August 2021

This month went in the blink of an eye for me! Does August always do that? Maybe. Should I be Christmas shopping already? Probably. Should I stop moaning and start talking about music? Definitely. There were loads of a great releases worth slowing down to hear- from the triumphant return of Every Time I Die, to Foxing’s potential album of […]

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PILE- ‘Songs Known Together, Alone’

Pile are a rock band. They make rock music. Think Pixies or Polvo or Fugazi. Their last album was a winning combination of off-kilter rhythms, unique, unsettling quiets, and weird, wiry louds. But Pile began life as the solo project of singer-songwriter Rick Maguire. So, when the pandemic locked him and his band members in different places last year, it […]

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JESU has remixed a JULIEN BAKER song

I didn’t see this coming. Julien Baker has enlisted, of all people, Justin Broadrick for a remix. Under the guise of his Jesu project, Broadrick has turned his attention to ‘Favor’, originally released on Baker’s third album, ‘Little Oblivions’, earlier this year. There’s actually a whole EP of remixes coming out early next month but Broadrick’s effort, which slathers dense, […]

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Listen to TARANOYA

I don’t really feel qualified to talk about Taranoya.  Taranoya is the solo project of producer Taraneh Schmidt. Originally from Iran but now based in Portland, USA, Taranoya uses ambient experimentation, subtle synths and slow-motion reverb to create lush atmospheres and barely-there dream-pop. She has released a lone EP so far but her debut album, ‘Becoming’, is out September 24th via […]

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Watch a new ROLO TOMASSI video

Moderate Rock favourites Rolo Tomassi are back. The band, formerly Brighton-based but now a transatlantic outfit, have released a new song, ‘Cloaked’. It’s a swirling, beautiful piece of music that bridges really neatly with their last album while spiralling off into a little uncharted sonic territory. You can watch the video below. The band are also directing people to a […]

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TAYNE- ‘Coherent’

Tayne’s debut album was like a poorly thought-out mixtape. It was full of great bits and pieces, and packed with exciting potential, but it was a clashing stylistic smorgasbord. Thankfully, the band (led by the do-it-all Matthew Sutton) have streamlined their approach for this new EP, and ‘Coherent’ thoroughly lives up to its name. Sutton still has a varied taste, […]

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Listen to FREEZING COLD

I somehow missed the arrival of Freezing Cold. The Brooklyn-based trio released debut album ‘Glimmer’ in 2019 and it’s really great but I was just too busy fretting about the state of my life or the state of the world, and I only just caught up with it last week. That’s because the band’s new release, a two-song EP, is […]

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#MODERATEROCKMIXTAPE- July 2021

Look, i’m not saying that fuzzy, furious, feedback-manipulating shoegaze-savvy bands sound better in the sunshine. I’m just saying that the weather has been ridiculously hot at times this month and, well, check out some of the names below. There’s more. From the return of Thrice to Pile playing piano, from Washington DC grunge to London emo, these are the songs […]

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Listen to TORMENT & GLORY

Brian Cook’s bass tone needs no introduction. And even if it did, you wouldn’t hear the words, such is the incredible, inimitable rumble he can conjure. For his latest project though, the former member of Botch and current member of Russian Circles and Sumac, is going solo, and going down the decibels. Under the name Torment & Glory, Cook will […]

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