When I asked Last Dinosaurs to describe their album, they told me In A Million Years is a “carefully considered guitar shredding pop” album. Normally, a lot of artists make over-exaggerated claims about their music; but in this case I reckon they were being a little modest. The first track of the album, ‘Zoom’, pretty…
All Time Low are one of those bands that stir emotion in anyone. Whether it’s intense fandom or uncontrollable hatred everyone has an opinion. As a fan since the Put Up Or Shut Up days I’ve seen their progression and journey from the tiny venues and unpopular EP’s to the arenas and chart topping anthemic…
Formed way back in 1995, Coheed and Cambria have been steadily releasing their blend of experimental progressive rock, pop punk and post-hardcore to the masses, through the guise of a high concept sci-fi story called The Amory Wars. An ongoing narrative which runs through every single one of their albums to date and their sixth…
What would you get if you channelled the spirit of Black Sabbath through the sound system in an old haunted house fairground ride? Well besides a bizarre idea for a crossover theme park you’d also have possibly the closest approximation of the sound of Bristol four-piece Turbowolf. This is the first release since last year’s…
I for one was pleasantly surprised by Animal Collective’s 2008 extended play Water Curses, featuring four texturally-rich tracks including ‘Cobwebs’ and ‘Seal Eyeing’, both of which seeming to represent somewhat of a change of direction for the experimental four-piece American band – although previous efforts such as Feels (2005) and Strawberry Jam (2007) were equally…
A rather mixed affair from the inteprid Californian producer on his fourth album.
Principles Of A Protagonist, a free EP recently released by Chicago born Willis Earl Beal, is beautiful and gloriously imperfect.
The entirety of Dan Deacon’s oeuvre is centred around juxtaposition. The Baltimore composer always sets his disparate influences against each other, rather than simply blending them together. For instance, on his last album, 2009’s excellent Bromst, he takes as much influence from Brian Wilson as he does Steve Reich, but it sounds little like either.…
Everybody’s favourite pop-punk rock superstars are back! And what’s that? They have three albums coming out in sucession? Complete with those Spanish expressions of exclamation! Yes Green Day have returned, but the real question is, what are they bloody angry about this time? Billie-Joe isn’t ‘fucking Bieber’ but he is addicted to an anonymous ‘substance’,…
The xx make a triumphant return with their stunning sophomore album.
I’m not one for judging a band without giving them a fair chance, but from just listening to lead single ‘Anna Sun’, I can’t help but do just that. It’s an upbeat, catchy and danceable indie-pop song, named as the song of the summer by MTV, but it does seem a bit… 2007. This is…
Bloc Party’s long awaited return ends with Four; a album without an imaginative name and with limited imaginative content
It’s quite difficult to compare Dog Is Dead to any other band. Their sound falls somewhere in the space between pop and indie, but on a scale that hasn’t really been seen before, with the best parts of both genres injected in. Guitar led tracks are brought alive with epic drops and choruses that you…
Lucy Rose, the up-and-coming folk singer/songwriter, has released her long-awaited debut album. You may recognise Lucy Rose’s voice before you recognise the name; she featured on many of Bombay Bicycle Club’s tracks, namely ‘Flaws’ from their album of the same name and numerous tracks on their latest album. But Lucy Rose has slowly made a…