Author: Guy Shankland

EP Review: Ay Wing – Ice Cream Dream
March 6, 2018 No Responses

EP Review: Ay Wing – Ice Cream Dream

Solo artist Ay Wing’s ‘Ice Cream Dream’ is full of eclectic electro goodness which swirls around the oyster wafer ear. Opener and title track ‘Ice Cream Dream’ is a must for BBC 6’s ever-precious playlist. The tracks light spacious sound...
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Album Review: The Dub Righters – True Sound Killaz
March 4, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: The Dub Righters – True Sound Killaz

London Three piece The Dub Righters throw their frayed flat cap into the Street Ska ring. The bands independent underground sound resonates with squatters rights, mouldy bathrooms and bed sheet curtains. Opener ‘Archway Keith’ has a distinct homemade 2-Ton...
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Album Review: Last Great Dreamers – 13th Floor Renegades
March 4, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Last Great Dreamers – 13th Floor Renegades

Eighteen months since the Last Great Dreamers released the excellent ‘Transmissions From Oblivion’ album the band have returned with another corker ‘13th Floor Renegades’. Up first is the rat-a-tat attack of ‘New Situation’ that blows away any cobw...
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EP Review: Kid Klumsy – Spit Your Dummy Out
March 4, 2018 No Responses

EP Review: Kid Klumsy – Spit Your Dummy Out

Kid Klumsy’s debut E.P ‘Spit Your Dummy Out’ is loaded with STP family familiarity and the result is six cuts of the Nineties shaved Pop-Punk. ‘Grow Up’ kicks a musical hacky sack at Sum 41 while ‘24 Hours’ has a...
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Album Review: Dirt Box Disco – Immortal
March 2, 2018 one Response

Album Review: Dirt Box Disco – Immortal

Rebellion favourites DIRT BOX DISCO continue to defy the odds by releasing ultra catchy earworm friendly, straight up street level Punk-Pop ‘Immortal’. The chant inducing ‘Ready Or Not’ bounces out of the speakers like a dangerous dog on red bull...
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Album Review: The Levellers – We The Collective
March 2, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: The Levellers – We The Collective

After fifteen years X2, with seven top forty albums and fourteen top 40 singles The Levellers release a stripped down collection featuring some of their most memorable cuts along with two new brand new tracks. ‘We Are The Collective’ isn’t...
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Album Review: Little Caesar – Eight
February 21, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Little Caesar – Eight

LITTLE CAESAR’s Fifth studio album ‘Eight’ finds them in rude and rowdy musical health. The rich Seventies spirit, soul and texture all organically unfold to reveal an album with deep Rock & Country roots, real roots. Opener ‘21 Again’ cruises.....
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EP Review: Sun Arcana ‘As I Take A Breath…’
February 20, 2018 No Responses

EP Review: Sun Arcana ‘As I Take A Breath…’

On March 9th Essex’s SUN ARCANA will drop their anthemic debut E.P ‘As I Take A Breath…’. ‘Fracture’ kicks this release into early life with it’s Billy Talent riff, varying tempos and some intricate touches bind it all seamlessly together....
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Album Review: Killcode – The Answer
February 20, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Killcode – The Answer

Ten years on from their inception NYC rockers KILLCODE return with a brand new full-length release ‘The Answer’. The title track and opener ‘The Answer’ is head nodding fist in the air, dirty riff smothered old school Rock song and...
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Album Review: Miesha And The Spanks – Girls, Girls, Girls
February 20, 2018 No Responses

Album Review: Miesha And The Spanks – Girls, Girls, Girls

Canadian Two piece Miesha And The Spanks deliver their brand new album ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ and it’s nowt to do with Motley Crue. Opener ‘First Blood’ has a Dums Dums, Hole, fuzzy Rock texture that is unpretentiously catchy in a...
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