Callum Reid, Author at OriginalRock.net

April 20, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Bowling For Soup – Pop Drunk Snot Bread

Pop Drunk Snot Bread is a Pop Punk Fun Shred of a Kick Ass Out Bed album from Texas’ own Bowling For Soup. Jaret Reddick & Co take on some heavy, heavy issues, in their familiarly smartass/dumbass, self-deprecating, satirical, sharply-worded...

April 19, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Tamar Berk – Start At The End

This impressive and thought-provoking album offers up songs with a certain intimacy and authenticity, not to mention philosophical rigour. The second solo outing by Indie Pop singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tamar Berk is good company for its 13 tra...

March 30, 2022 No Responses

EP Review: The Clockworks – Self Titled

“Tripping over bottle tops, skip round syringes/ Trollies in the river and gates off their hinges … It feels so real to me.” Everything Post-Punk plus the kitchen sink, Galway’s The Clockworks deliver power-packed two and three-minute pop vignettes pac...

March 26, 2022 No Responses

A Tribute: Taylor Hawkins

The details are sketchy, the internet right at this publishing moment says “may be drugs”. The press release from the band says “devastated”. The press release mentions “wife, children, family”. When it comes to Taylor Hawkins, drummer and life and...

March 25, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Axlaustade – Self Titled

Instrumental Indie Rock. Is this what the world needs now? Mmm. Axlaustade might just be on to something … The band collectively say: “We wanted to create some music you could meditate, headbang, dance or run to. Reminiscent of the...

March 24, 2022 No Responses

EP Review: Future Cavemen – II

The EP can be something of an artform in and of itself. Step forward, Future Cavemen (aka singer-songwriter/producer Joe Tennant). Punters don’t necessarily do albums now. A single, tho, is not always enough. And sometimes four tracks can say more...

March 23, 2022 No Responses

EP Review: The Hara – We All Wear Black

We All Wear Black is like a mini The Black Parade, with songs that are a little less than A Little Less Sixteen Candles … but there’s more to these guys than just a My Chemical Romance or Fall Out...

March 22, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Anna Westin – LEV

Creative and distinctive, poised, poetic and mysterious … LEV is Anna Westin’s new and fascinating indie folk record. The music seems to aspire to the almost sacred bubble of Iris DeMent, or the atmospheric, multi-layered arthouse soundscapes of Portishead...

March 16, 2022 one Response

Album Review: Joe Satriani – The Elephants Of Mars

Guitar maestro Joe Satriani, since Not Of This Earth in 1986, has established, re-established, energised, re-energised, imagined and re-imagined the instrumental rock guitar album as an art form. On his latest outing he bristles with vibrant creativity, like a...

March 9, 2022 No Responses

Album Review: Theodore – The Voyage

Ride to the stars on waves of synths, powered by the rocket fuel of cosmic imagination, with Theodore’s first album in three years, switching from the spinetingling and subtly ambient to the grand-scale anthemic and out-and-out euphoric. Man And His...

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