Pennsylvanian rockers, Nothing, return to the scene with their third studio-length record, Dance On The Blacktop. A record that attempts to break the rules of sound in its own way by flooding each track from start to finish with intense and dreary atmospherics, all encased in a tidal wave…
Never one to rest on his laurels, Mark Lanegan is always on the cusp of collaboration. After the break up of his successful Seattle-based band Screaming Trees, he released a steady flow of albums as a solo artist on top of his work with Queens of the Stone Age, Soulsavers…
Punk is back. It’s brutal, insane and filled with more angst than ever before. Bristol legends IDLES have returned with their second full length release, Joy As An Act Of Resistance, a record which I’m already willing to call, with little to no hesitation, album of the year. In…
Interpol didn’t quite become the band that their debut record Turn on the Bright Lights – a brilliantly scuzzy slice of post-punk with a sense of brood that evoked Joy Division – promised. Since 2001, they’ve lost members and flirted and subsequently broken up with major labels, but with Marauder,…
Exhaustion and loneliness take the shape of something bold and elegant on Be the Cowboy, the new album from Mitski. The playful title is an ode to iconically lonesome film Cowboys, and provides a platform that Mitski uses to unpick love and longing in many forms. We already knew Mitski…
You don’t get many bands like The Lemon Twigs in a lifetime. They’re genuinely eccentric, seemingly wholesome and talented beyond belief. Go To School is the band pushing the limits of their compositional muscles and the product is unbelievable; it is an album of passion made by two brothers who…
The best music seems to manifest out of periods of struggle. If an artist experiences hardship, then a great number of times this negative energy will be used to create something masterful on a sonic level. Brian Christinzio, otherwise known as BC Camplight, is an American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who…
Oh Sees are their own creature entirely. With each album release it seems more as though a tear in our reality has appeared and they briefly seep through to our realm. They are a group that release music in a way that a manic science fiction writer releases…
Second time around and The Coral are still taking delight in what they do best: confounding expectations at every turn. Back in 2002, when the music world was going mad for the retro delights of The Strokes and The White Stripes, they exploded onto the scene with their self-titled debut.
It may be their eighth studio album release, but Thank You For Today marks a new beginning for American indie-rock titans Death Cab For Cutie. Following long-standing guitarist and songwriter Chris Walla’s departure immediately before 2015’s Kintsugi, the band have regrouped in a new(ish) line-up with previous touring members…