‘We Are Youth’ hits you straight away with a dominant drum beat then suddenly erupts into a wild guitar frenzy. […]
Kennedy Sunday no longer exists. Rebranded and renamed as Armies of You, they’ve left their previous incarnation behind and embarked […]
Ufomammut have already written this review for me, and quite succinctly: ‘repetitious heavy metal sounds’. Not just a lyric on […]
Dark, brooding and dense, this album is the antithesis of all that annoying happy-go-lucky indie pop in the charts at […]
With all the profit earned from selling Kick Back The Rug And Everybody Dance going to Make a Wish foundation, […]
You only need to spot the fact that Kruzenshtern and Prohod are on this record to know you’re in for […]
From the very first guitar slide of ‘The Town and The City’, to the last plaintive keyboard note of ‘Last […]
There is a moment on this album (somewhere around the first chorus of ‘Out of the Question’ – think Snow […]
In a package delivered to me by some bloke on the back of a unicorn drinking home-brew cider, I got […]
Right, I’m on a roll today, and not one made of bread, butter substitute and Dairylea. So following a quick […]
Well, The Mag’s reviewing roundabout revolves again and the hand of fate makes a slightly rude gesture and throws Optional […]
Opener, ‘God Shaped Hole’ kicks in with a great slab of a riff, hitting the minor notes and screaming of […]
Brimming with old-school indie, Strange Mutant Virus’ EP ‘Is it Bardot?’ isn’t exactly lyrically inspiring but there’s just something about […]
Think driving fast down an empty American highway with the perfect rock album blaring and you’ve pretty much got the […]
Kicking off with an absolute gem of a track, ‘Falling (Part 2)’ has all the trappings of one of those […]
This is the second EP from Zenyth and it seems they’ve lost none of those good things from their first […]
When you hear the words industrial and music in the same sentence you’ll do one of two things; search desperately […]
With a smattering of bands across the globe in contention for the ‘international’ name, Fury UK are Manchester’s representatives of […]
The Horse are one quirky band, let’s get that out of the way first. Later in this review, I’ll describe […]
This is, without question, the best demo EP I’ve ever heard, for sheer fun and entertainment value. Goodbye Sergeants purvey […]
Finding myself in the midst of moving to Wales, I thought what an opportune time to review some CDs, before […]
It’s fair to say The Soft Explosions have been around for a bit. Back in 2002, brothers David and Nicky […]
These chaps got into The Mag’s MP3 chart two months running with the opening track on the EP, ‘Happy Hour’. […]
Bursting into life like an Anglicised version of The Corrs, Hansom Pilot are an instantly likeable pop band with melodic […]