Tag: music blog
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TRACK REVIEW: Rising Pacific – Parts
Founded in November 2013, Falkirk band Rising Pacific have been cited, in typical Scottish fashion, as a “cracking wee three piece band” and one of the best young acts around which is no real surprise considering the material they’ve released so far. Naked, a single released at the tail end of 2015, featured the band channeling their inner…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Kendrick Lamar – untitled unmastered.
An out of nowhere release from Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar results in one of the most enjoyable listens of 2016 2015 belonged to Kendrick Lamar. In a year full of police brutality and heated politics, To Pimp A Butterfly stood out as the jazz drenched perspective of a man from Compton who has witnessed…
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TRACK REVIEW: Modern Baseball – Apple Cider, I Don’t Mind
Pennsylvanian emo, punk rock act Modern Baseball showcase new material from their forthcoming album Back in the 90’s, pop punk was fairly content in delivering jokes about fucking mums, getting drunk and farts, perfectly accompanying any and every party you could ever attend due to its catchiness and simplicity that made it accessible to pretty…
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New Tropics – Morphine TRACK REVIEW
If you were to look at Chichester rock band New Tropics social media, more specifically their photos of broken equipment including a heavily chipped drum and a telecaster with a chunk out of it, you’d probably expect a roguish pack of boys with a very rough sound. Whilst I can’t say much about the former,…
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TRACK REVIEW: ROSTAM – EOS
That new Vampire Weekend album you’ve been waiting patiently for might be pushed back further with the recent release of multi instrumentalist and producer Rostam Batmanglij’s new single EOS. EOS came about naturally after Rostam discovered an old voice memo on his phone. It’s rare that that happens for me—I’m always collecting ideas on my…
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Track Review: Pouty – Sad
California sweethearts deliver a track full of glamoured up qualms about anxiety White women singing about feeling sad and suicidal? Well that’s new. Whilst this may be something we’ve came to know (and get sick of) with Lana Del Rey, it would be harsh to say that Pouty are trying to rip her off in any…
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Album Review: David Bowie – ★ (Blackstar)
Bowie recreates his sound and himself yet again on his latest and last album Blackstar which takes on a life of its own after his death.
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Straight Outta Drongan: An Echo Valley Interview
Ayrshire band Echo Valley tell all from Limmy jokes to the challenges of musical image It’s a Thursday night and as most people are heading home from uni and college to get ready for student nights out, I’m sitting at a bar table with Liam and Shaun McCluskey. The bar, to be specific, is none other…
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BCAYMI: November 2015
When I attempted, and failed, to make my series Blink (Clyro) And You’ll Miss It into a monthly thing, I kinda fucked it up. Despite being one of my most popular posts, there was something about it that just didn’t sit with me right, like the potential it had just wasn’t being used. Now after a…
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John Lennon Was A Terrible Person
It’s entirely possible that you missed out on a pretty interesting news story this afternoon. If you managed to dodge all the “David Cameron loves Pigs” memes and closet racist comments about the refugee crisis then you’ll have no doubt saw a cluster of people going crazy about news about John Lennon. Sadly, or thankfully…
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