Album Review: Meatraffle – Bastard Music
Nearly four years after their 2015 debut ‘HiFi Classics’, South London indie gang Meatraffle are finally releasing its follow-up, ‘Bastard Music’. It features the band making various left-wing yet parochial observations about modern life to a twee, whimsical musical backdrop. The album’s first song opens with the sound of the titular cyclops snoring and this …
News: Working Men’s Club Release Second Single, Announce Tour
Following their support slots with The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Fat White Family, Yorkshire teenage new wave revivalists Working Men’s Club have released their second single and announced extensive touring plans. The band, who claim Suicide as an influence, have signed to Heavenly and followed up debut 7″ ‘Bad Blood’ with ‘Teeth’ as their …
EP Review: [B O L T], Lavas Magmas – Untitled
German drone metal duo [B O L T] have joined forces with Floridian industrial noise project Lavas Magmas on this untitled three-track collaborative split EP of ambient post-rock. [B O L T] perform the first track, ‘1 2’, which is basically a short series of ambient synth notes stretched out for over ten minutes with …
See: Oh Sees announce new album/tour, tease new tracks
Northern Californian garage rockers Oh Sees have unveiled two songs from their new double LP, ‘Face Stabber’, which is due out August 16th on Castle Face Records. ‘Poisoned Stones’ is accompanied by an interesting video that was seemingly inspired by late 80s/early 90s arcade games. Check it out here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el4VQS7Kw88 ‘Henchlock’, meanwhile, is 21 minutes …
News: Explosions in the sky reissue first, fourth albums, announce UK/Ireland tour
Texan post-rockers Explosions in the Sky have reissued their first and fourth albums on vinyl and announced plans to tour the UK and Ireland next year. The band have released debut album ‘How Strange, Innocence’ and ‘lost’ fourth album ‘The Rescue’ on vinyl. ‘The Rescue’ was previously only available as a download and CD mail …
EP Review: Why Sun – Frugte
Copenhagen trio why sun describe their sound as ‘sleepy noise’. It’s an interesting attempt to coin a new sub-genre, but I can hear little going on here besides straight up dream pop. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course. Within their new EP ‘Frugte”s opening moments, it’s clear that the band’s timing of …
Album Review: Bad Breeding – Exiled
Following the critical acclaim heaped upon the band for their first two albums and their support spots with such luminaries as Fucked Up and METZ, Stevenage anarcho-punk quartet Bad Breeding now unleash upon society ‘Exiled’, a blistering third album comprised of 12 tracks about the band’s anger at the austerity-ridden state of the UK today. …
See: WIVES release new video for ‘The 20 Teens’, reveal album news
New York City post-punk quartet WIVES have announced that their debut album, ‘So Removed’, will be released via City Slang on October 4th. The album will feature 11 songs, including singles ‘Waving Past Nirvana’, ‘Workin”, and ‘The 20 Teens’. The band feature Andrew Bailey from DIIV, cite Sonic Youth and The Fall as influences, and …