ALBUM REVIEW – THE THING: THE THING

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 […]
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 […]

ALBUM REVIEW – THE ROYSTON CLUB: SONGS FOR THE SPINE

ALBUM REVIEW – TEETHE: MAGIC OF THE SALE

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 […]
OSEES                Abomination Revealed At Last             The 12 tracks on ABOMINATION… are a hypnotic, maniacal, and propulsive attack on the senses–a fitting reaction to a world suffering from genocide, environmental collapse, state sanctioned violence, progressing technocracy, and more. Teethe                 Magic of the Sale          Texan slowcore band unveil their sad and beautiful world. Dropout Kings […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 8 AUGUST 2025

ALBUM REVIEW – RENEE RAPP: BITE ME

Reneé Rapp is a force to be reckoned with. At just twenty-five, she has played as Regina George in the Broadway adaptation of Mean Girls, reprising that same role in the 2024 adaptation of the film and achieved similar success with her music career by receiving a GLAAD Media Award and a Kids’ Choice Award […]
“I know it’ll all be over soon”. Life, as it were and continues to be, is a never-ending path of simultaneous discovery and recovery. It’s a passage through our desire as humans to ask the inescapable question of; why? Not just to ourselves but to the world around us. A constant urge to find answers […]

ALBUM REVIEW – YOSHIKA COLWELL: ON THE WING

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 1 AUGUST 2025

Debby Friday   The Starrr of the Queen of Life              Dance music brimming with coded, if-you-know-you-know references—weaving love letters and innuendos from the names of it-girl perfumes, French cognac, and Hellenistic prophetesses who speak in tongues. The New Eves                 The New Eves Is Rising              An instinctive, incendiary mix of Patti Smith radical poetry, rock’n’roll recklessness, […]
Eve ate from the forbidden fruit, the Book of Genesis tells us, and God punished her by making her “pains in childbearing very severe”. Would you say the punishment fit the crime? Was it a crime to disobey God’s orders in the first place? Ask Brighton-based quartet The New Eves and you’ll get the same […]

ALBUM REVIEW – THE NEW EVES: THE NEW EVE IS RISING

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 25 JULY 2025

Rebecca Schiffman                Before the Future      The album is a collage of varying shades and shapes, with the weight of time at its core. The sonic palette often belies its heavy subject matter. It features contributions from contributions from Sasami plus members of Deerhoof, Woods and Perfume Genius. Cory Hanson                I Love People Written […]
McKinley Dixon is one of the few rappers who can drop a bar like “my target audience is everyone with heart,” and have it feel honest, earned, and true. The music is just that spirited and joyous it would genuinely take someone heartless to find fault, and the slinky flows, compelling thematic depth and luscious […]

ALBUM REVIEW – MCKINLEY DIXON: MAGIC, ALIVE!