CUT YOURSELF IN HALF – Mekkanizm

Excellent Debut from Bradford mentalist’s.

Cut Yourself In Half have delivered a quite simply an awesome debut. From the opening second, Mekkanizm just grabs you and gives you a listening experience that can be described as getting dragged by a moving car … Read More

JULIA BIEL – We Watch The Stars

After working with Polar Bear and with producer Ben Watt of Everything But the Girl, being featured in a Nokia Campaign and being nominated at Rising star BBC jazz awards, Julia Biel presents her second album.

Her first single ‘We … Read More

BITE THE BUFFALO – Blue Lips

It seems to be an unwritten rule of life that even if you’re writing an essay that makes life feel like an evening out under the whims of the Marquis de Sade, there is something about the scuzzy, sparky … Read More

LAC – Borstal Boy EP

Okay. I’ll confess. The moment I saw a press release proclaiming “gritty everyday life” and “real poetic flavour” I did cringe and set it on the procrastinate pile. I get bored of Hollyoaks-the-musical bands trying to be profound, I … Read More

MY DYING BRIDE – The Manuscript

The Manuscript is the latest addition to the seemingly endless catalogue of My Dying Bride. It consists of four tracks left over from the sessions of the last album “A map of all our failures”. With four songs clocking … Read More

MICE PARADE – Candela

It’s refreshing whenever your ears find themselves subject to a sound that is new, energizing, and most crucially generically innovative with regards to its artistic origins. This sensation is less refreshing when you realise you’re a little … Read More

GENERATIONALS – Heza

New Orleans act Generationals have a retro pop sound to them, they’re even releasing their latest album Heza on cassette as well as LP to accentuate this. They must miss cassettes as much as me, I suppose. The album jumps … Read More

COCOVAN – Bang Bang

The vocals kind of remind me of Diana Vickers from the X Factor but I think I can overlook that aspect. The music is inspired by New Order and David Bowie as well as more current pop … Read More

OLYMPIANS – Filling My Heart With Weird Dreams

I would totally understand if the term Math-Pop makes you flee in abject terror, dear reader. God knows I have every time I’ve come across it prior to the latest single from Norwich based quartet Olympians. Surely … Read More

SERPENT OMEGA – Serpent Omega

Rumbling from the speakers like a juggernaut of caustic immensity, Serpent Omega’s self-titled LP shakes up the tropes of blackened doom metal, by taking the ferocity of black metal and the heaviness of doom, rather than the … Read More