Author: Guy Shankland

EP Review: The Rareflowers – Self Titled
June 25, 2018 No Responses

EP Review: The Rareflowers – Self Titled

New Jersey three-piece The Rareflowers self-titled E.P laconically strokes Pop’s underbelly with a flower while laying in the long grass and staring at the blue sky, through shades. Opener ‘Trip Into The Sun’ shimmies and kinks with a sixties Brit...
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EP Review: Liquid State – Save Yourself
June 25, 2018 No Responses

EP Review: Liquid State – Save Yourself

Bristolian Rock outfit Liquid State’s debut E.P ‘Save Yourself’ kicks off with the anthemic ‘After Hours’. The song has an enterprisingly confrontational chorus and a Hard Rock meets Grunge musical spine. The methodical ‘Bones To Glass’ pounds wi...
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Album Review: The Agony Scene – Tormentor
June 25, 2018 one Response

Album Review: The Agony Scene – Tormentor

After a ten year recoding embargo The Agony Scene return with the brutalistic ‘Tormentor’. The aurul battery begins with ‘Hand Of The Divine’ it’s a bone rattling attack of imperious style that criss crosses the Speed and Thrash gears. The...
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Album Review: The Spitfires – Year Zero
June 20, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: The Spitfires – Year Zero

After some high profile support slots in 2018 which included The Skids and Dave Wakeling’s Beat Watford four-pieceThe Spitfires release their latest album ‘Year Zero’. Opening cut ‘Remains The Same’ resonates with early Jam spirit and an upbeat and q...
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Album Review: Evil Blizzard – The Worst Show on Earth
June 19, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Evil Blizzard – The Worst Show on Earth

Evil Blizzard pushes the boundaries once more on their third full-length release, the motorway pile-up of sound ‘The Worst Show On Earth’. Opener ‘Hello’ sits uncomfortably between genres, prodding Lydon’s PIL between the ribs with a Sleaford Mods st...
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Live Review: Stone Free Festival (Scorpions, Megadeth, Buckcherry)
June 18, 2018 No Responses

Live Review: Stone Free Festival (Scorpions, Megadeth, Buckcherry)

Buckcherry end their energetic set with the feminist anthem ‘Crazy Bitch’ which they also manage to squeeze a few bars of ‘Jungle Bogey’ into. Thrash Metal titans Megadeth draw a huge crowd of Rattleheads and the bands Vic logo is...
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Album Review: State Champs – Living Proof
June 18, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: State Champs – Living Proof

New York Pop-Punksters State Champs unleash their third offering the Emo-bouncing ‘Living Proof’. Opener ‘Criminal’ touches down on all the Punk-Pop planets with light vocals, tight snare drums and pregnant musical pauses aplenty. The stair climbing, c...
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Album Review: Culture Abuse – Bay Dream
June 15, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Culture Abuse – Bay Dream

Californian Punksters Culture Abuse return with their sophomore album, the tunefully laidback ‘Bay Dream’. Opener and title track ‘Bay Dream’ laconically springs into bleary-eyed life with a morose Sunday morning, I need a coffee feel. ‘Rats In The W...
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Album Review: The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound Sessions
June 11, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound Sessions

This cut ‘n’ paste collection of demo versions, covers and rarities ties in with the tenth anniversary of The Gaslight Anthem’s sophomore album ‘The 59 Sound.’ The bands unpolished, soul heavy, blue collar, just trying to do the right thing...
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Single Review: Mortimer Jackson – Chancers and Rats
June 11, 2018 No Responses

Single Review: Mortimer Jackson – Chancers and Rats

Britpop maybe a distant memory to most but singer-songwriter Mortimer Jackson has built on the movements best musical moments to deliver the decade defying ‘Chancer And Rats’. The impressive single nudges the floor filling influences into the flickering sp...
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