Rating - 4/5 Bandcamp - https://mawpit.bandcamp.com/releases Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mawpitband/?hl=en Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/2RD7z9F2Px2N47I8jOJYpS?highlight=spotify:track:36134CQG6Gz15e0LpZdAOC F.F.O : Wolf Alice, Royal Blood, Garbage, Turbo Wolf Modern rock from Cardiff is a simplistic way to state the identification of Mawpit. The Welsh trio are a tight unit. They quite clearly have music embedded in their daily desires and it shows... Continue Reading →
Reviewed – Isolates – Hollow
Rating - 4/5 Inverness outfit Isolates have already proven they are capable of writing a brilliant song or two with debut single Frost, and followup, Forces. But Hollow, their debut album, shows this was no fluke, and they have plenty more to offer. Hollow consists of seven tracks, including Frost and Forces, and clearly takes... Continue Reading →
Reviewed – James Humphreys – Color
Rating - 4/5 Colour is the newest single from James Humphreys upcoming EP Memory Place, which lands on the 10th June 2020. It’s the follow up to his 2017 release Sun Mantra and the intervening three years have taken him to the Albert Hall, Glastonbury and then a cruise ship? Time on the waves has... Continue Reading →
Reviewed: Wishbone – Pseudo Planet EP
Released: 1st May 2020 Rating: 4/5 The world needs more doom pop, and Midlands trio Wishbone are here to provide it. Their debut EP, Psuedo Planet, is a magnificent insight into the genre, and promises the band an exciting future. The EP features two previously released singles, Laika and Maelstrom, plus three brand new tracks,... Continue Reading →
Reviewed – Estate – Losing Myself
Rating - 4/5 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/EstateUK/ Atmospheric sounds and jangly reverb abound in Estate’s latest release ‘Losing Myself’; it’s another strong effort from the Telford four-piece who added another string to their bow with this single being named as BBC Shropshire’s Track of the Week. The hazy soundscape lends itself nicely to the lyricism which... Continue Reading →
Bruce Springsteen – 40 Years of The River
As a lifelong Springsteen fan, I have re-visited this record many times and last week I did so again in preparation for this article. This was the 2nd Bruce album I bought and when asked to review it for its 40th anniversary I thought it would be pretty easy. But this time, while listening to... Continue Reading →
Real Talk – Mantlet
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mantlethc/ Bandcamp - https://mantlet.bandcamp.com/album/burning Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mantlethc/ By channelling the roots of the Hardcore genre into their music, Mantlet has taken everything that made the genre so unique and perfected it into their work. Hailing from Coventry, the band have been a name for themselves and now making regular appearances in the Birmingham... Continue Reading →
Reviewed – Bethlehem Casuals – The Tragedy of Street Dog
Rating - 4/5 There won’t be many albums that tell the story of a dog that goes in search of where all the music of Manchester has disappeared to. This is one. Presumably the only one. Street Dog, the eponymous hero, goes off to find that Manchester’s music is being held in the Dirty Old... Continue Reading →
Reviewed – Morrisey – I am Not a Dog on a Chain
Rating - 3/5 Always divisive, yet unquestionably talented and progenitor of some of the most iconic music that helped to shape the contemporary British scene; Morrisey returns with his thirteenth solo effort ‘I Am Not on a Dog on a Chain’. Granted, this magical, musical heyday of which I speak was of course established by... Continue Reading →
Real Talk – Revolve
Revolve Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Revolveglasgow/?ref=br_tf&epa=SEARCH_BOX Bandcamp - https://revolveglasgow.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwAR1kEk5150L2VnABHsND1rbklfPRsktXk9lhOawvYg-BWtX8OVKwKVTSmek Revolve have rose to the top of the Scottish Hardcore scene. After also establhsing themselves as one of the main names in the UK and Europian scenes, Revolve are a band that are expanding upon the roots of the Hardcore genre. While adding a modern stance to their... Continue Reading →