UGLYAlbum by SlowthaiReleased 3 March 2023UK Hip HopLabel – MethodRating – 9/10 A matter of life and death. – Slowthai’s UGLY (U Gotta Love Yourself) is a mental health expedition with two beginnings and two ends. Closing track 25% Club, set against a miserably beautiful acoustic guitar backdrop, not only pledges to piece back together, […]
Food for WormsAlbum by ShameReleased 24 February 2023Post-Punk / Art PunkLabel – Dead OceansRating – 6.5/10 Powerhouses of post-punk relief, Shame deliver another emotional high on Food for Worms. – I recall labelling Songs of Praise – Shame’s 2018 debut album – a fairly generic post-punk album. There are so many talked-about post-punk bands these […]
Desire PathwayAlbum by Screaming FemalesReleased 17 February 2023Indie Punk / Alternative RockLabel – Don GiovanniRating – 7.5/10 – The sound of thunder has always roared through Screaming Females’ music, whether due to the New Brunswick trio’s customary, sledging quakes of garage punk, or wails and wobbles of frontwoman Marissa Paternoster’s voice. They kill ‘em with […]
New York CityAlbum by The MenReleased 3 February 2023Punk Rock / Garage PunkLabel – Fuzz ClubRating – 6.5/10 Gruff, rough, and all that other punk stuff. – The Men’s version of punk had always been fairly youthful. Watch their KEXP set from way back when and you’ll discover a new animal with an unknown conservation […]
Every LoserAlbum by Iggy PopReleased 6 January 2023Garage Rock RevivalProduced by Andrew WattRating – 6/10 Every Loser is here to beat the shit out of you, and then comfort with some light poetry. – The artwork of 2016’s Post Pop Depression found Iggy Pop stood beside his gang of rock n roll thieves, a supergroup […]
Everybody’s got something to hide except for me, my monkey, and Mike Ness. Since Social Distortion – the punk band he fronts – formed back in the late ‘70s, the singer has used his voice, containing throaty inflections that resemble the roughest soil, to access and assess the turmoil of his younger days; numerous stints […]
A Foul FormAlbum by OseesReleased 12 August 2022Punk / Garage Rock / Psychedelic RockProduced by John DwyerRating – 6.5/10 A Foul Form sounds like no other, whilst somehow remaining quintessentially Osees. – It’s been almost two years since we last heard from Oh Sees / Thee Oh Sees / Oh Sees / OCS / Osees […]
Cave WorldAlbum by Viagra BoysReleased 8 July 2022Post-Punk / Dance PunkLabel – Year0001Rating – 7/10 “That ain’t normal baby hair; that’s animal hair”. – In my review of Viagra Boys’ Welfare Jazz, I classified the band’s cover of John Prine’s In Spite of Ourselves – in collaboration with Amy Taylor of Amyl and the Sniffers […]
BabyAlbum by Petrol GirlsReleased 24 June 2022Punk Rock / Post-HardcoreLabel – HassleRating – 8/10 Channelling DIY punk, and the uncooked Londoner yowls of Poly Styrene, Petrol Girls become the necessary punk voice of 2022 with Baby. – The most noteworthy occurrence on June 24th of this year was the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Rode […]
No PressureAlbum by No PressureReleased 1 June 2022Pop PunkProduced by Ben HirschfieldRating – 6/10 Share your love of pop punk with No Pressure; they’re more than happy to do so with you. – Comprised of members of The Story So Far, Light Years, and Regulate, No Pressure is a supergroup formed out of a mutual […]
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