Monthly Archives: April 2014
Creepoid – Wet
This four-track EP from Creepoid, released on 12” for Record Store Day on Graveface Records, is spaced out. It’s a 90’s grunge revival piece with references to Nirvana and Radiohead and very definitely The Pixies. This is 2014 though and … Continue reading
Fight Like Apes – Whigfield Sextape EP
Fight Like Apes. A name I always look forward to seeing crop up in places. I first heard them many years ago when an old housemate played me their first album. His sister had heard it and sent it to … Continue reading
Harker – Hours
Brighton four-piece Harker have come out with a really strong, well-produced and thought out four-track EP in ‘Hours’. The dynamics build and break powerful storytelling, with shouts to 90s post punk/emo such as Texas Is The Reason. Big sing-along choruses … Continue reading
Uke-Hunt – The Prettiest Star
A month or two ago, we saw Me First and the Gimme Gimmes live. At one point, Spike Slawson pulled out a ukulele and declared he was playing songs from his side project – of ukulele cover versions – called … Continue reading
Various (ALGB3) – Alt/Punk Vol. 2
This project is, according to the blurb on the A Lonely Burning Ghost bandcamp, “focussed on putting together top quality, freely downloadable compilations featuring tracks…[that] deserve to be heard”, which about nails it. This is a disparate, but well thought … Continue reading
Among Giants – Back and Forth
Among Giants are exactly the sort of thing I’m trying to describe when I am talking to mates about forming a new band, lying somewhere between Osker (oh please get back together!), Interpol and Andrew Jackson Jihad on the musical … Continue reading
Southpaw – Stitches
The list of acts that Berkshire’s Southpaw cite as influences must be huge, as each individual song on this five-track EP is reminiscent of two or three different bands, with little overlap. They are clearly influenced by several emo and … Continue reading
Direct Effect – Sunburn
Direct Effect combine all the best aspects of old school and new school hardcore punk. Do you like it wild and loose, with songs that sound like the only thing holding them together is the intense fury of the band … Continue reading
Dad Rocks! – Year of the Flesh
Dad Rocks! is the work of Snӕvar Njáll Albertsson; the Icelandic quarter of death-indie (their words) band Mimas. ‘Year of the Flesh’ is his second album, and one I have been eagerly awaiting. It’s easy to compare Dad Rocks! to … Continue reading
Wonk Unit – Nervous Racehorse
Wonk Unit. Good ol’ Wonk Unit. One of the few UK bands who are genuinely hard to categorise and can be hard to understand. Basically, they’re a bit weird, but in a good way. Essentially, Wonk Unit are a punk … Continue reading
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