Punk / Post Punk Albums
Album Review: The Nightingales – The Awful Truth; Post-punk chaos meets twisted pop brilliance.
The Nightingales return with The Awful Truth, their first album since 2022’s The Last Laugh, proving once again that Robert Lloyd and company remain as sharp, unpredictable, and essential as ever. Released on Fire Records, the album is a tangled, exhilarating mix of post-punk urgency, surrealist storytelling, and skewed pop sensibilities—an acerbic, sideways glance at …
Album Review: The Lambrini Girls – Who Let The Dogs Out; much anticipated debut lives up to the hype and makes early play for album of the year
“Who Let the Dogs Out”, the debut album from Lambrini Girls has landed, and it’s everything fans could have hoped for—ferocious, unapologetic, and full of life. The Brighton duo, comprised of Phoebe Lunny and Lily Macieira, has long been celebrated for their unfiltered approach to music and performance, and this record captures their spirit perfectly. …
Album Review: Milk Teeth – Milk Teeth
Gloucestershire punk trio Milk Teeth have made quite a name for themselves on the UK’s post-hardcore circuit over the last five years, notching up coveted support slots with the likes of La Dispute and Pianos Become the Teeth, as well as gaining themselves mainstream recognition with appearances on festival bills and Radio 1 playlists. Having …
Interview: Jonah Falco (Jade Hairpins)
When I call Fucked Up drummer Jonah Falco to discuss his latest band Jade Hairpins, he is in a good mood. Having spent nearly half a decade in London as a transplant from his native Toronto, he has finally gotten a record player for the first time as a resident of the UK capital. He …
Album Review: Press Club – Wasted Energy
Australian Garage Rock/Punk band Press club are set to release there 2nd studio album via Hassle Records on August 16th. Originating in Melbourne they have built up a reputation for heavy touring which involves no less than 200 live shows in Australia alone and then they have also made a name for themselves with sell …
Album Review: Various Artists – 1977 The year that punk broke
New 3 CD Punk Box Set from Cherry Red the perfect introduction if you ever needed one. There has been some very good Punk box sets in recent years, and although Cherry Red have produced a few of them, this one far exceed the others in terms of quality and quantity of the better releases …
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. …
Album Review: The Yalla Yallas – Outsider
The Yalla Yallas Album – Outsider Self Released June 21st The Yalla Yallas, having very recently supported the likes of Penetration and the still great TV Smith in what can only be describedas nothing short of fire storming live performances have just released their new album Ousider. Not that audiences we’re in any doubt of what was to come from the …
Album Review: Spear of Destiny The Albums 1983-1985 Box Set
Cherry Red June 2019 By Leggy Mountbatten Spear Of Destiny The Albums 1983-85 After the successful reissues of the Theatre Of Hate albums, front man Kirk Brandon`s Spear Of Destiny get the box set works from Cherry Red. After the demise of TOH in 1983 Brandon and Stammers the two main parties formed Spear Of …
Album Review: Evil Blizzard – Everybody Come To Church
Evil Blizzard, one of the slightly less conventional acts (and we’re not just talking about the masks) to grace the current music scene are all set to release there follow up to last years debut long player ‘The Dangers Of Evil Blizzard’. Recorded live in a single day at Magnetic North Studios, ‘Everybody Come To Church’ quite …