Category: EP/Album Reviews

Album Review: I Prevail – Trauma
April 5, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: I Prevail – Trauma

Good lord metalcore is in a sorry state. Weakened and watered down to the point of non recognition by bands who still use the label, but essentially produce pop music these days, in a desperate attempt at sounding modern. Thank...
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Album Review: The Wolf Howls When I Scream Your Name – To Be Where There Is Pale Light
April 5, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: The Wolf Howls When I Scream Your Name – To Be Where There Is Pale Light

I’ll Huff, and I’ll Puff… Oh dear my friends, the wolf is at the door, but unlike the little pigs who met with an unfortunate end, I am brave as I am equipped with this timely offering from, wait for...
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Album Review: Damien Jurado – ‘In the Shape of a Storm’
April 5, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Damien Jurado – ‘In the Shape of a Storm’

Jefferson Starship, “Across The Expanded Sea of Suns” (Floating World)- The contents of this inexpensive live package were captured for posterity  at New York’s Bottom Line in 2001, along with a bonus disc reprising their concert at Amst...
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Album Review: Brutus – Nest
April 2, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Brutus – Nest

Belgium three piece Brutus return with the nail gun symphony that is ‘Nest’. It’s a Powerful, provocative and in places devastatingly beautiful album. Opener ‘Fire’ picks off where the bands stunning 2017’s debut ‘Burst’ left off. The haunting ...
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Album Review: John Illsley – ‘Coming Up For Air’
March 28, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: John Illsley – ‘Coming Up For Air’

John Illsley,”Coming Up For Air”(Creek Records)- Dire Straits may have given up the ghost in 1995 but former member John Illsley is doing his level best to keep their trademark sound alive via expertly crafted albums such as this. The...
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Album Review: The Fallen State – A Deadset Endeavour
March 26, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: The Fallen State – A Deadset Endeavour

State your Claim! With Brexit looming ( not again…) and the UK looking down the toilet, I am one of the lucky few hunkering down with tea and biscuits and the new offering from our British heroes, The Fallen State....
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Album Review: Pioneers – Insecurities
March 26, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Pioneers – Insecurities

In just 3 short years Southampton’s Pioneers have released an E.P, toured the UK numerous times, with the likes of Hacktivist and Continents, followed by a brief European tour and now they have released a monster of a debut album...
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Album Review: Blaqk Audio – Only Things We Love
March 26, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: Blaqk Audio – Only Things We Love

If you arrived here, looking for something similar to Davey Havok and Jade Puget’s day job in AFI, then move along, there’s nothing to see here. If you are looking for an album stuffed full of exquisite electronic, then take...
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Album Review: David Gray – Gold In A Brass Age
March 21, 2019 No Responses

Album Review: David Gray – Gold In A Brass Age

David Gray, “Gold In A Brass Age” (IHT Records)-  David Gray’s eleventh album doesn’t supply any revelatory  new lyrical insights into the vagaries of the human condition but could well be the most creatively  satisfying ...
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EP Review: The Xcerts – Wildheart Dreaming
March 18, 2019 No Responses

EP Review: The Xcerts – Wildheart Dreaming

Dead Cert Desserts! These four little titbits were written at the time of the “Hold On To Your Heart” sessions but were not included on that album. Instead we have extra pudding my friends, and everyone loves pudding! This EP...
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