Album: Songs For Sad Girls Artist: Lauren Tate Lauren Tate has had an impeccable year already, with an abundance of shows and festival appearances with band Hands Off Gretel, not to mention the release of hit sophomore album ‘I Want The World’, it’s needless to say 2019 has been a year of success for Tate. Adding to this list of achievements, Songs For Sad Girls … Continue reading LP: Lauren Tate – Songs For Sad Girls
Sick Joy are a heavy pop band with a grunge attitude that aren’t holding anything back. Whilst elemtents of their previous work are still present, Them Days is more experimental than their first EP, Amateurs, and this is greatly welcomed. A nod towards Amateurs, ‘Playing Dead’ bridges their previous EP with Them Days and wastes no time in bringing a flurry of fuzzy grunge-pop. With … Continue reading EP: Sick Joy – Them Days
EP: We’re Starting to Get Along Artist: Ultra Q Alternative rock band Ultra Q have released their first EP since rebranding and changing their name from Mt. Eddy earlier this year. It seems fitting that the first song the band released under their new name, Ultra Q, is also the first song on the EP. ‘Redwood’ very much bridges the gap between the old Mt. … Continue reading EP: Ultra Q – We’re Starting to Get Along
Album: Never Not Nothing Artist: Black Futures Yesterday (Friday), “future punk” duo Black Futures released their debut album, Never Not Nothing. With an unparalleled industrial synth-punk sound, these British rockers are here to revolutionise the rock scene with a dystopian music journey. Black Futures make clear that they are no strangers to a soundboard, which is explicit through the pure depth of the layers of … Continue reading LP: Black Futures – Never Not Nothing
Album: This Is Not A Safe Place Artist: Ride It may have taken six albums and thirty-one years (albeit including a rather long hiatus), but Ride have come out triumphant. In an album that seems so natural, This Is Not A Safe Place is the most glorious album the Oxford-hailing shoegaze rockers have put out to date. Stomping straight into the opening track ‘R.I.D.E.’, the … Continue reading LP: Ride – This Is Not A Safe Place
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