Category: EP/Album Reviews

TOM (The Organised Misuse) “Never Stop the Rock” independent album released 1 June 2013
January 16, 2021 No Responses

TOM (The Organised Misuse) “Never Stop the Rock” independent album released 1 June 2013

It’s not often that we delve into the archives but the opportunity presented itself when, through Twitter, I found “Never Stop the Rock” from TOM in my feed. Founded as a one-man act during the 1990s in Granada, Spain, by...
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EP Review: Cold Weather Kids – Quarentunes
January 14, 2021 No Responses

EP Review: Cold Weather Kids – Quarentunes

LA based pop-punk trio Cold Weather Kids have just released their sophomore EP ‘Quarantunes’! The EP was created during the height of the pandemic and offers doses of reflection and positivity around that period in time. ‘Quarantunes’ gets 2021 off...
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Ben Wood and the Bad Ideas “Soho” independent single released 31 December 2020
January 5, 2021 No Responses

Ben Wood and the Bad Ideas “Soho” independent single released 31 December 2020

It’s hard to put a finger on what Ben Wood and the Bad Ideas are achieving musically. Which is to say, it’s a unique sound they’re creating, having gone back to Obsessed with You (which I found on the “Permanent...
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Album Review: Blackout Problems – Dark
January 4, 2021 No Responses

Album Review: Blackout Problems – Dark

Got A Problem?  Yes, several actually, but you know my friends through this quagmire you get to think and reset your lives and hopefully there will be better days ahead for us all. A time when we can see our...
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Album Review: Justin Wells – The United State
December 30, 2020 No Responses

Album Review: Justin Wells – The United State

Justin Wells,”The United State” (Singular Recordings)- There can’t be too many practitioners of Americana who can happily cite Pink Floyd and Guns’n’Roses as major musical influences, but this was the aural landscape which fired J...
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Album Review: Ingested – Stinking Cesspool Of Liquefied Human Remnants
December 30, 2020 No Responses

Album Review: Ingested – Stinking Cesspool Of Liquefied Human Remnants

Humanity/Depravity. My friends this is my second outing with these inglorious ruffians, Ingested, and welcome to their world of the deranged and the dubious. Admittedly I quite liked 2020 release, and now I get to travel back in time when...
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Album Review: The Sad Song Co. – Saudade
December 23, 2020 No Responses

Album Review: The Sad Song Co. – Saudade

The Sad Song Co. – ie multi-instrumentalist Nigel Powell – is back with this fifth solo outing, a finely and elegantly produced slice of Pop/Prog, or “Proggy Pop?”, that qualifies as good company while it lasts even if little of...
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Single Review: Raised By Owls – Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Metal Band Aid 2020)
December 23, 2020 No Responses

Single Review: Raised By Owls – Do They Know It’s Christmas? (Metal Band Aid 2020)

Hootenanny! My friends, here it is THE Christmas single of 2020, a Thrash/Death metal version of the original Band Aid ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’  What can I say, it’s full of good cheer, chewing off your left ear so...
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Single Review: Joeys – I Found You
December 23, 2020 No Responses

Single Review: Joeys – I Found You

If like me you’re looking for some new sounds to fill these uncertain times, Liverpool’s 4-piece band, Joeys, may have a solution with their latest release ‘I Found You’.  It brings an alternative rock, Kings of Leon style rasp and...
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Single Review: Forts like Vana – Damsel In Distress
December 23, 2020 No Responses

Single Review: Forts like Vana – Damsel In Distress

Hot Damn! Well my friends after spending a considerable amount of time in the world of Death metal, I have here a little morsel that will run smoothly over your palate and tickle those lockdown worn taste buds.  Nashville is...
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