The Decayist 025: Defeater – Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
Weaving a narrative through an album is a surefire way to at least make it noteworthy. Most bands are shite at it. Some are better.
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The Decayist 024: Frozen Gate – Behind The Dark Ice
In the autumn of 2016 an album appeared out of nowhere that set us up perfectly for winter.
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The Decayist 023: Top 10 Albums Of The 1990s
We are nothing if not list-making children of the nineties. They’ll let anyone make a podcast these days.
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Live report: Ithaca at The Victoria, Birmingham
Fucking hell, The Victoria is a sweatbox. It’s not even at capacity for the visit of Ithaca and it’s not even that warm outside, but that hasn’t stopped the mercury rising to uncomfortably sticky levels inside the tiny room above a not-particularly-large pub in the second city.
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The Decayist 022: Thunder – Backstreet Symphony
Well, there’s no accounting for taste. Thunder are massive, and they’re the subject of this month’s podcast.
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The Decayist 021: Hole – Celebrity Skin
Last month we talked about Nirvana, whose story looms large not just over the band’s surviving members but an entire scene.
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Podcast special: Palm Reader interview
Palm Reader have a special place in our hearts. They are a world class band with three tremendous albums to their name, the most recent being 2019’s Album of the Year for This Decay.
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The Decayist 020: Nirvana – In Utero
Recommending music to your pals is one of the great pleasures of being a fan. Sometimes it’s to show off. Sometimes it’s about broadening horizons. And sometimes it’s plugging a gap that is, frankly, embarrassing.
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The Decayist 019: Skid Row – Slave To The Grind
You can’t be king of the world if you’re slave to the grind. So said Skid Row, the band at the heart of this month’s podcast.
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The Decayist 018: Maylene… – II
For our first podcast episode of 2019 we’re heading to the south of the United States of America to take in tales of yesteryear. With riffs, obvs.
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The Decayist 017: Albums Of The Year 2018
2018 is at an end and that means it’s list season, and our Top 20 Albums Of The Year.
The Decayist 016: The Defiled – Daggers
It’s always a sad event when a band departs the stage for the final time. Notable examples from recent times include HECK, Letlive. and The Dillinger Escape Plan.