Therapy? slap us awake with ‘Joy’, inspired by a line from Samuel ‘wreck it like’ Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. So, […]
There’s so much to love about Candi Carpenter’s new single, from those very first warm notes right through to the […]
Long-time readers will have heard of Bushbaby. We frequently encountered them playing live up and down the country alongside greats […]
Can you save me from myself? So it starts as Old Neon conjure the feels in their latest single, ‘Save […]
Dropping just in time for her UK and European tour, ‘Boom’ is a frantic and explosive track from Cassyette that […]
It’s not often you hit play on a song and immediately imagine it being performed alongside the legendary Jools Holland […]
Royal & the Serpent lands at the heavier end of edgy pop-punk, close to the crossover with metalcore. The sweet […]
Aided and abetted by Ethan Ross, the heavy-hitting ‘Do Or Die’ with scratching, synth, MC-ing, and viscerally emotional vocals is […]
Taken from forthcoming long-player, The Price of Progress, ‘Sideways Skull’ is a great fuzzy slice of Minnesota’s alt-rock legends, The […]
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This is an instant classic from Stand Atlantic. ‘kill[h]er’ chugs, splashes, and rocks its way straight onto my playlist with […]
Released two weeks apart, Martyn J Collins has given us two distinctive songs. Let’s start with the most recent of […]
Every time Magnolia Park surfaces on our playlist, we talk about how great they are. Baku’s Revenge is their second […]
In this fourth instalment of the Banyard and Mingle mysteries, Seraph of the Sallow Grove, it starts strong. Within a […]
Starting with a solid EMO riff, Old Neon’s latest single, ‘Autum’, morphs into a fast-paced nod to punk revival. In […]
Die So Fluid are gradually working their way towards an EP or album, and ‘We Are The Virus’ is the […]
Some English-speaking folks tend to shy away from songs written in another language, but The Mono Jacks could be your […]
Candi Carpenter’s single ‘Exorcist’ is an acoustic storytelling masterpiece. There’s much to unpack in this single, but let’s start with […]
Arriving on January 6th, Contact is the second long-player from Engines Made From Soup, following up on their 2020 release, […]
Plenty was going on in 2022, and the highlights are all so bright they are easy to pick out. Here’s […]
Throat released Knievel is Evil all the way back in 2002 and what a debut album this was. We’ve dusted […]
Skáld create music based on Norse texts, re-imagined as atmospheric songs with high contrast in the vocals. They often sing […]
What the hell has happened here? We thought we’d got Old Neon’s number, but ‘Jump Start’ is full of surprises. […]
There are many routes back to the giant Cawr-Madog, but it matters not whether you get there via Geoffrey of […]
What a smouldering slice of Americana we have here, a plate of intricately wonderful instrumentation upon which Sara Jean Kelley’s […]