The Firebird
‘I cannot, I will not, conform or try to fit, hold high your heart.’ I saw the Dynamo Is Dead programme that aired recently, and I think it’s quite fitting here with the return of Alex Varkatzas, known for his...
Category: EP/Album Reviews
Five Year Storm
‘Today we rise above, tomorrow hit the floor.’ The name’s Pek, Templeton Pek and today we return after a five year absence with our new single ‘Perfect Storm’, quite apt for the weather we have been having recently. To my...
The Final Curtain
On 29th December 2020 Alexi Laiho passed away, leaving an unsurpassed legacy and a light on over Lake Bodom that illuminates the universe. That is my opinion, I miss this band and to celebrate and honour them we have an...
Winter Souls
‘The bee that flew when summer shone, in winter cannot sting.’ Welcome my friends to a homecoming of sorts, I bring you the latest release from Julianne Regan and Tim Bricheno, who were the core songwriting team for 80’s folk...
Secure Your Epitaph!
‘Lead some assholes to the top, flip the lid and watch them drop.’ The Hives are back my friends, led by the completely bonkers yet enviably cool Pelle Almqvist they introduce their mythical sixth member, Randy Fitzsimmons. Having been part...
THE CHORDS UK brand new EP ‘Somewhere Beyond The Rainbow’ hits the musical sweet spot, again.
THE CHORDS UK SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE RAINBOW (EPOP Records) 9/10 Chris Pope and his Chords UK continue a rich, punchy vein of form with their latest EP, ‘Somewhere Beyond The Rainbow’. The opener and title track is armed with the...
UK singer-songwriter DYLAN JAMES drops his startling debut album ‘Expected To Fly’.
There’s an honesty in this here-there album that cradles a deep, burning emotion that tempers the good and evil in modern-day life. The ‘Expected To Fly’ opener, ‘Painted It Gold’ has a wonderfully stripped-back Brit Pop resonance...
Dark Horizons
‘I might die young, but I don’t give a damn.’ So, my friends today I find myself in Essex, home of the notorious Rettendon murders, thankfully Junction 28 are not homicidal maniacs, but they do harbour the frustrations and fears...
Colour My Soul
My friends it’s time to explore the world of Techno, a robust and primeval look at music, full of repetitive beats and thundering rhythms that come at you like a slingshot, Pendulum are back with an EP, that is short...
Darkness Descends
‘I’m wasting my time looking for the signs, I’ve wasted my life waiting for the signs’. My friends today I am in the company of Graphic Nature, and their debut release ‘A Mind Waiting To Die’ having previously been intrigued...