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From Thursday 23 April 2015

Vanilla Pod – ‘Seeing Out The Sunrise’

2015 sees Vanilla Pod enter their twentieth year as a band and with a decent sized back catalogue behind them it would have been easy for them to decide to celebrate this milestone with a nostalgic re-release of their past material and nothing more. To their credit there’s

Monday 20 April 2015

Lacey – ‘Under The Brightest Lights’

With another busy festival season just around the corner, Lacey make a strong claim for their place on your summer playlist with ‘Under The Brightest Lights’. Having honed their pop-rock sound with their 2013 ‘Outlaws’ EP, Lacey’s début album strikes the perfect balance between melody and muscle in

Saturday 18 April 2015

Real Friends – ‘More Acoustic Songs’

It’s long been a staple of the pop-punk genre to include an acoustic song as part of an album but ‘More Acoustic Songs’ is the second time that Real Friends have put out a EP dedicated to the stripped back approach. This time around, they’ve brought together a

Monday 06 April 2015

Trials Of Early Man – ‘Life Goals’

Trials Of Early Man may be a band in its infancy, having only played their first gig together at the end of 2014, but they have a wealth of experience to draw their inspiration from. Half-jokingly describing themselves as ‘Four old guys who used to make music in

Friday 27 March 2015

The Skints – ‘FM’

The Skints have always been fiercely creative, and ‘FM’ is, on the surface at least, based around a day’s airplay at a fictional radio station. After a short ‘breakfast show’ link sets up the concept, its straight into ‘This Town’, a celebration of London that doesn’t gloss over

Wednesday 25 March 2015

High Rise – ‘Tides Will Take You’

After going on indefinite hiatus in 2012 Londoners High Rise are back, and ‘Tides Will Take You’ gets off to an explosive start as the charging guitars and raw vocals of ‘Burdens’ come crashing forward. You can almost feel the weight behind the riffs, and it makes for

Wednesday 11 March 2015

Stuck Between Stories – ‘Ignorance Is Bliss’

Think of the northern UK punk scene, and the cities of Leeds, Sheffield, and Manchester probably spring to mind. With ‘Ignorance Is Bliss’, Stuck Between Stories are likely to open some ears to what’s going on in Wigan, a town familiar to many as the birthplace of Northern

Friday 06 March 2015

Daisyhead – ‘The Smallest Light’

No Sleep Records, home to the likes of Balance And Composure and Major League, has become one of the most consistent labels around when it comes to quality, and Daisyhead will be hoping that ‘The Smallest Light’ is as well received as other releases for the label have

Thursday 26 February 2015

Colleen Green – ‘I Want To Grow Up’

‘I Want To Grow Up’ is very much a solo release by Colleen Green, and one that keeps the LA based songwriter centre stage, but it also marks a shift in production values away from the DIY approach of earlier releases as Green is joined for the first

Monday 23 February 2015

Anakin – ‘Celestial Frequency Shifter’

Since forming in 2010, Anakin have always taken a wholeheartedly inventive approach to the creation of their music and ‘Celestial Frequency Shifter’ is the most fully realised example of their vision to date. It would be easy to dismiss Anakin as simply another post-rock band given their influences