Playlist: TD0219
For our second Spotify playlist of 2019 we’re taking it back to the old school with twenty ragers from classic metal, NWOBHM and more.
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Review: Ithaca – The Language Of Injury
You’ve already heard of Ithaca. And if you haven’t you will soon. The knowledge that they were the next cab off the rank at Holy Roar Records was enough to generate huge anticipation and the debut album has now arrived.
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Live Report: Milk Teeth, Conjurer and the futility of genre
If you’re going to trek to Milton Keynes – well, Wolverton to be precise – on a frozen Wednesday night in January, you’d want a pretty good reason.
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Review: Better Than Mending – Desire Lines
Cathartic emotional aggression. As sells go, that’s a good one. It applies to the new EP from Bristol’s Better Than Mending, their second, and it fits their post-hardcore sound like a comfortable pair of socks.
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Get Back, outside: 50 years on
I personally avoid going out wherever possible, but other people do and when this happens they will no doubt sometimes find themselves in attendance at live music performances.
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Review: Judiciary – Surface Noise
Such is my taste in rock music that an aggressive metallic hardcore album is likely to catch my ear. In many ways, it’s hard to go wrong.
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Review: wars – As Within /// So Without
Rugby’s wars evolved from their previous incarnation, reset, and laid down a challenging marker with their first EP in 2015.
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Revisiting Fire by Electric Six
What do sarcasm, disco, limitless sexual innuendo and an obsession with nuclear war have in common? Why, it’s the debut album by Electric Six, of course!
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Revisiting Permission To Land by The Darkness
I can pinpoint the moment I fell in love with Permission To Land, which, weirdly, came before it was released or before I would actually get to hear the whole thing.
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Revisiting Purple by Baroness
The fifth album is on the way in 2019. Somewhere between the third and the fourth I visited my uncle’s house and clacked my way through his CD collection and discovered, belatedly, Baroness.
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Review: Puppy – The Goat
Debut albums are a funny thing, aren’t they? They are your means to announce yourself to the world, to make a mark and set out your stall.
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Revisiting The War Of Art by American Head Charge
Cast your mind back to 2002. In the world of heavy, guitar-based music, the freaks were in charge. Nu-metal’s rise had thrust the alternative forward and made it mainstream.
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