If the fundamental of what makes something punk is artistic expression entirely on your own terms, then Yung certainly fit the bill. Even if their sound doesn’t always meet the genre’s sonic criteria. The embryo of Yung first began to form as songs recorded by frontman Mikkel Holm Silkjaer…
??It's been three years since The Strokes brought out Comedown Machine, an album that I don't remember having much impact at the time, I've even met fans who didn't know they'd released it! 2011's Angles was more up my street, and fared better in the charts, although arguably there's…
When British guitar music looks for pointers, it often throws around the same requests. It wants music that is quick out the stops, can pack in a chorus that shadows everything else around and it needs to be culturally or socially relevant, or at least to an extent. Last…
The enigmatic aura that undercuts everything Iceland’s Samaris have produced returns on June 10 for the third time. The muddled haze that creeps up in a minimalist fog has become the staple point of the group. From winning the Icelandic Músíktilraunir and Kraumur Award in 2011 for their earliest…
Genre deconstruction can be a dangerous card to play, one that if used in the wrong manner can cause a false illusion of promise, often delving the album into the dark world of ostentation. Psychedelia as a genre is a term flung around willy-nilly now by journalists who are…
If you have yet to hear of Let’s Eat Grandma, you can largely be forgiven for now. Probably not for too much longer though as their upcoming debut album I, Gemini is garnering critical acclaim from all directions and seemingly appears to be an album that is going to…
On their third LP, Flamingods seem to be grappling with their multi-cultural background in an entirely new, captivating fashion, tapping on ideas previously left untouched. The album, which is described by frontman Kamal Rasool as being largely inspired by his time in Dubai, captures the conceptual journey of the character…
When turbulent relationships and writing patterns cause rivets within bands, it often leads for one of two outcomes. The album may suffer because of it, it falters and stumbles just to a disruption within the dynamic, rather than explode, the project implodes, sucking in on itself bringing with it…
Why is it that when love enters our lives, we fall into it? The expression to ‘fall in love’ reflects our fundamental ambivalence towards the sensation. Something that hits us with such force, it’s exciting but also terrifying. Containing the subconscious knowledge that something so strong contains the seed…
The Temper Trap are back and this time around, you should probably, definitely care. One hit wonders are often a bit of a stigma that attach themselves to a band. When commercial success is reached based largely upon one song, you do not need to look much further than…