Tag: rock
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ALBUM REVIEW: Pup – The Dream Is Over
In the same way that it’s near impossible to find a Californian punk act who don’t sing about drugs, so to is difficult to talk about PUP’s sophomore album without falling into a cliche that every review has fell into by addressing this album’s title: after visiting a specialist, frontman Stefan Babcock was bluntly told “the…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Frightened Rabbit – Painting of a Panic Attack
It has become far too common for bands to talk about a “reinvention” while on the promotional trail before a new record is released, only for them to have repeated themselves with a few minor tweaks, or to have done the exact opposite and to have thrown away what their fans loved about their previous…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Death Grips – Bottomless Pit
Dwelling into what made your glory days so, well, glorious can be a dangerous task: pull it off and fans will see you as a perfectionist, fail and others will assume you’ve ran out of ideas. Thankfully it’s the former for Sacramento hip hop, rock act Death Grips, a band whose delivery of music has been…
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TRACK REVIEW: Blink-182 – Bored To Death
How much of what makes blink-182 is still there? Just like the transhumanism question, many wonder if the band can still be what many fans fell in love with after the departure of founding member Tom DeLonge and subsequent addition of Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba. Now that we’ve got our first taste of the new…
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ALBUM REVIEW: HOVVDY – Taster
Blame my appreciation of anything the slightest bit moody or my unfiltered love of music that resembles American Football’s atmospheric debut but HOVVDY are without a doubt the best act to have came out in 2016 so far. While they’ve been creating tracks for two years now, the release of Taster, their debut album, the…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Weezer – Weezer (White Album)
Weezer really do love naming their albums after themselves, don’t they? From their humble beginnings on their eponymously titled debut, referred to as the blue album, the L.A act have released three other albums with the same title, each as different as the next. However, on their latest use of self titling, this time called…
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NEWS: Hail Haim! Band Set To Release New Music
Sister act Haim have teased fans on social media with the promise of showing off new music from their upcoming LP. Just like all music news nowadays, Twitter has been the source of this story. Haim shared a video on the social media site where one of the sisters states that they have”just been in…
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AN INTERVIEW WITH: Multiplier
Often compared to Elbow, Radiohead and Doves, Manchester four piece Multiplier have been tipped as an English Indie band to watch out for. Their influences range from rock and indie to shoe-gaze pop and soundtracks. They’ve kindly answered a few questions about themselves and their new single ‘Love You To Death’. For people who…
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TRACK REVIEW: Biffy Clyro – Wolves Of Winter
Roguish Scottish rockers make their return, sounding angrier than ever on their latest single It’s been a while since we last heard a brand new album from bearded three piece act Biffy Clyro (3 years, 1 month, 22 days but who’s counting?) who since the release of ambitious double LP Opposites have been touring extensively, playing…
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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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