Category Archives: Reviews
Somos – Temple of Plenty
Somos are outright worshippers of Hot Rod Circuit, and that suits me just fine. It’s about time more bands trod in the footsteps of an act who wrote some of the finest emo punk melodies ever penned. Everything that made … Continue reading
Midday Committee – Girls In Open C
I want to start by saying that, if you like pop-punk, you should probably give this a listen. It’s really good. I didn’t know what to expect, having never heard Midday Committee before, and after reading the reasoning behind their … Continue reading
Death and The Penguin – Accidents Happen
Brixton-based Death and The Penguin are Best Before Records’ latest signing. Their new EP, Accidents Happen, begins with previously released single ‘Snuffed Out’; a song that instantly makes me feel nostalgic. It reminds me of old Idlewild songs, if covered … Continue reading
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
Scene Better Days 