Berries How We Function (Xtra Mile Recordings) LP/CD/DL Released: 8 July, 2022 Berries debut sees them functioning nicely. London based guitar, bass and drum trio, Berries, who have been knocking around the circuit since around 2018, but had their initial impetus stalled by the pandemic, are finally releasing their debut album. How We Function is… Continue reading Berries: How We Function Album Review
Nerina Pallot I Don’t Know What I’m Doing (Idaho) LP/CD/DL/CASS Released: 17 June, 2022 Nerina Pallot submits to chaos on new album. It’s been 17 years since Nerina Pallot flirted, or maybe just winked, at fame with her Top 20 single, “Everybody’s Gone To War”; a song that not only attracted acclaim, but some ire… Continue reading Nerina Pallot: I Don’t Know What I’m Doing Album Review
Bad Pelicans Paris (Géographie Recs.) DL Released: June 3rd, 2022 Bad Pelicans emerge with new single. In the years since we reviewed Bad Pelicans first album here, the band appear to have gone through a metamorphosis, ditching punk tropes for a more electro industrial beat, but their incipient irony and sense of fun remain intact,… Continue reading Bad Pelicans: Paris Single Review
Release Date 20 May, 2022Most Clash apologists will tell you the Combat Rock was the final Clash album, andit’s hard to disagree with the air brushing out of history of the actual lastClash album, Cut The Crap, but it does exist folks, and if it had been betterproduced and the songs allowed to rock then… Continue reading The Clash: Combat Rock/The People’s Hall Album Review
Shilpa Ray Portrait Of A Lady (Northern Spy) LP/CD/DL Released: 29th April, 2022 9/10 Shilpa Ray is god. And she’s angry. Shilpa Ray is criminally overlooked. Shilpa Ray is the heir to Lou Reed’s mantle of NY street poet. Shilpa Ray is wild. Shilpa Ray is humorous. Shilpa Ray is soulful. Shilpa Ray is vicious.… Continue reading Shilpa Ray: Portrait of a Lady Album Review
Andy Partridge My Failed Songwriting Career Vol 2 EP Rating: 7/10 Label: Ape House Release date: 8 April, 2022 You would think an established songwriting member of a well-known band that had scored hits in the UK and the US, would find his talents as a songsmith to be in demand. Sadly, for Andy Partridge,… Continue reading Andy Partridge: My Failed Songwriting Career Vol 2 EP review
The Linda Lindas Growing Up (Epitaph Records) LP/CD/DL Released: 8th April, 2022 8/10 Debut album from band too cool for school. Music journos and critics have been picking over the dead carcass of rock music for around two decades now, discussing everything from when was rock’s last glory year, when did it actually die and… Continue reading The Linda Lindas: Growing Up Album Review
Label: Spine Farm Release date: 25 March, 2022 Killing Joke emerge to soundtrack another end of the world. Killing Joke have come a long way since their early post-punk days of the late seventies, becoming much heavier along the way, but always with an apocalyptic vision (indeed, lead singer Jaz Coleman regularly predicts the end… Continue reading Killing Joke: Lord Of Chaos EP review
Anarchistwood Chiasmata (Ex Gratia) LP/CD/DL Released: 10 March, 2022 8/10 The ‘Wood release new album of punk provocation. Punk pranksters and provocateurs Anarchistwood, finally release Chiasmata, an album that started back in 2019, but with global pandemics, only recently was fully recorded. Along the way, terrible personal tragedy hit the band, and that they have… Continue reading Anarchistwood: Chiasmata Album Review
8/10 Label: Thirty Tigers Released February, 2022 The difficult third album sees Sarah Shook and her band expanding their horizons. Nightroamer, Sarah Shook and the Disarmers third full album, finds the band on a different label, moving from Bloodshot just prior to that label’s buy out by Exceleration Music and signing with Thirty Tigers, personnel… Continue reading Sarah Shook & The Disarmers: Nightroamer
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