It’s saturday, 11 AM After just six hours of sleep since the British music festival season kicked off with The Great Escape in Brighton on Thursday, I find myself licking my wounds in the back room of the Prince Albert on Trafalgar Street. Despite my exhaustion, I eagerly anticipate an intimate gig with Cut Worms […]
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Ok I get it, The comparisons that is. In the opening 30 seconds of track 1 of 6, ‘you need it!” You could be forgiven you had accidently put on Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots for a never wasted spin , before it instantly melts into the raw pre punk wailing energy of say New […]
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I’m Numb The third Single from Psycho Comedy’s tremendous debut album ‘Performance Space Number One’. Although a different beast to Pick Me Up, Numb succinctly embraces the anarchic patchwork prototype of the punk sound, which is becoming a badge of honour for the band amongst their peers attempting to shake the genre into a new […]
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Tinfoils : Spitting Maybe it’s partly down to the isolation, a subconscious yearning for human interaction, that has me visualizing myself in some beautiful smelly independent venue, all available table space stacked with discarded or forgotten half empty plastic pints and crushed up cans. I’ll spend 20 minutes queuing for a warm one of my […]
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With most major labels and mainstream acts backing away from releasing new music due to tour and festival cancelations during this global pandemic, a pathway has seemingly cleared for DIY artists to shine brighter. With music lovers appetite’s still insatiable for fresh sounds, I’ve chosen to focus on independent artists with new April releases that […]
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Dr Orange’s debut single ‘Comes in Threes‘ ‘Laid back apocalyptic glamour’ With an apocalyptic air, it’s certainly a song for the times. A throbbing guitar rift straight out of a lost boys soundtrack feeds the shadowy fraught vocals. Intermittently the simple yet effective chorus opens up to let the organ make hay, before making way […]
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