John Dwyer and co had always nodded heads towards a concept album – something slightly shifting from Thee Oh Sees but sticking with the same relentless rhythm. Omitting ‘Thee’ off the name of the band certainly sticks by the tattoo of Dwyer’s music and with Orc, his 19th album,…
Originally set for release way back in February, then June and now August, Shock Machine’s debut self titled record has sent anticipators on a bit of a journey before even hearing it! Now finally within the public domain, we can see if Klaxons, James Righton’s (AKA Shock Machine)…
The live stage is where you can only truly capture the power, intensity and sheer insanity of Gogol Bordello, for sure. These world wide-cum-Americans have been plying their wares since the turn of the millenium and, however you much you may think you hate gyspy punk, you'd have to…
Laughing in the face of any ‘difficult second album’ clichés, PVRIS have delivered a truly defining album that is sure to solidify their spot in rock’s upper echelons. Again produced by Blake Harnage, All We Know Of Heaven, All We Need Of Hell is no mere retread of debut…
A Deeper Understanding is the fourth full-length album from Adam Granduciel’s The War On Drugs and the band’s first since 2014’s Lost In The Dream. For much of the three-and-a-half-year period since that release Granduciel has been revisiting and re-examining endless hours of recordings with exuberance. This has pushed…
Brooklyn four-piece Grizzly Bear are back after an extended hiatus with their fifth album, Painted Ruins, one of the most hotly anticipated releases of the year. I sometimes feel that, despite the pace of online media, music has this tendency to work its way into the public consciousness more…
The London four-piece Flyte emerged back in 2014 with their debut single ‘We Are The Rain’, released at the time through Transgressive Records, following the attention given to it by Zane Lowe and Fearne Cotton. It was this single too, that pricked up the ears of Island Records,…
You always knew exactly what you were going to get with The Duke Spirit, you just didn’t know when you were going to get it. Famed for incendiary live shows and with gaps of several years between each album release since 2005’s debut Cuts Across The Land, fans were…
Australian post-punkers Gold Class have gone deeply personal for their new record Drum. Whist their second release still showcases their dark, strident, riff-heavy sounds, the four-piece are this time exploring conversations surrounding queer history and the ideas of silence, evasion and transgression within this. ‘A sort of love letter to…
The story of Neck Deep is one of pure unbelievability, these ordinary Wrexham boys have transformed into pure pop-punk titans that show no signs of stopping or slowing down anytime soon. Now they’re back with their third full-length album, The Peace And The Panic, we can ask if…