ALBUM REVIEW – SUNYEARS: THE SONG FORLORN

“I look at peers of mine I’ve worked with, like James Yorkston or Robert Forster, and those guys are auteurs, with a clear identity. They know exactly what they want to do. But, myself, I felt a little bit lost.” Peter Morén recounts the musical crossroads he reached after Peter Bjorn and John placed themselves […]
The 1990s was a halcyon time for adventurous guitar led music. Beyond the obvious American candidates such as Slint, Polvo and Trumans Water, there was a host of UK bands who were pushing the format to its limits. It was easy to overlook Prolapse in this category as the first thing that leaps out when […]

ALBUM REVIEW – PROLAPSE: I WONDER WHEN THEY’RE GOING TO DESTROY YOUR FACE

INTERVIEW: MANCHESTER PSYCHFEST RETURNS – WE CATCH UP WITH PROMOTERS NOW WAVE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS YEAR’S EVENT

Now Wave have been a fixture on the Manchester music scene for over a decade, putting on gigs by a variety of bands, both the more established ones and taking a chance on the newer bands too. Inventing a festival dedicated to the best new and established psychedelic bands around, Manchester Psych Fest is now […]
Having started out in their secondary school days in Mayo, Ireland, with Kyle Thornton on guitar and his mate Adam on drums, Nerves are now on the brink of a second EP that sees them pushing their eclectic, quaking noise-rock sound even further. “We were quite obviously going to end up forming a band,” Kyle […]

INTERVIEW – NERVES

ALBUM REVIEW – MARISSA NADLER: NEW RADIATIONS

It is easy to perceive the criticisms that could be levelled at ‘New Radiations’. Undeniably, it is glacially one-paced while the absence of percussion makes it unlikely to inspire its listeners to dance or send them out into the world feeling euphoric. However, there is a more powerful flipside to that critique. The similarities between […]
“I’m outside with lily eyes”. Labels. They’re everywhere. They are a part of you, me, the cafes that you walk by and the people that you see day in day out. Everything and everyone has a label. But why? When each facet of our life is so different, so intrinsic, so innate, is something lost […]

ALBUM REVIEW – NO JOY: BUGLAND

ALBUM REVIEW – MGK: LOST AMERICANA

After two decades in the game, you’d think MGK wouldn’t have much left to say. The first time the world heard of him, he was another white rapper who grew up on the streets and wanted to make a name for himself. Due to his talent, he was quickly pitted against Eminem, resulting in the […]
Blending garage rock and blues, The Thing return with ‘The Thing’. A constant roll-out of albums the band show no sign of stopping now. Stemming from New York and consisting of members Jack Bradley (guitar/ vocals), Zane Accord (bass/vocals, Michael Carter (guitar/vocals) and Lucas Ebeling (drums). Influenced by different things but merging them together to […]

ALBUM REVIEW – THE THING: THE THING

ALBUM REVIEW – THE ROYSTON CLUB: SONGS FOR THE SPINE

When ‘Shaking Hips and Crashing Cars’ released in 2023, there was an immediate sense that Wrexham quartet, ‘The Royston Club’ are going places, with sold out venues across the UK and a wide cult following, the longing for new music was loud and clear from fans and critics alike. And it was finally matched when […]
Magic Of The Sale is the second album by Texas’ Teethe. I haven’t heard the debut yet, so I went into this record completely blind. Slowcore is a genre built around wistful, restless songs to lay awake spiralling to and that’s a feeling Magic Of The Sale bottles and captures at its most pure and […]

ALBUM REVIEW – TEETHE: MAGIC OF THE SALE