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Declan Welsh and The Decadent West AND Dima Midborn Reviewed
November 25, 2025
Declan Welsh and The Decadent West – Feeble (Feat Helicon and Al Lover)
Trainspotting-core. That’s the genre we should’ve got once Irvine Welsh’s novel was turned into a globally successful film. But, instead, all the actors got job offers from sugar-sweet…
Clamsterdam and The Overjoyed Reviewed
November 18, 2025
Clamsterdam – Radiator
There was little in this whole big world quite like the Ramones when they started out. And, quite famously, all they could rely on was the same chord played across the guitar neck and their strangely wired imagination about circus freaks, gay…
Local Teen and Surface wound Reviewed
November 12, 2025
Local Teen – It’s Not Your Fault You’re Dumb
Records, typically, take a lot of planning. Once that’s done, people have to be brought in to evaluate the plans. And once that process has ended, other people need to be employed to help the band or artist realise…
PHWOAR and Young and Doomed Reviewed
November 11, 2025
PHWOAR – Pleasure Island
Time wounds all heels, as Mr Marx (no, the other fellow with the strange facial hair) once remarked, and poor, little Great Britain, once the greatest Empire in human history, is finding out that karma is not just a thing one of them gurus…
Buckaroo Banzaï and Southbound Snake Charmers Reviewed
November 4, 2025
Buckaroo Banzaï – Lost
Who are we leaving punk music to? That’s a question we should be asking ourselves whenever one or a few bands get successful on their own merits and a crowd of copycats piles in trying to steal some of the attention.
Sure, everyone…
The Tin Can Collective and LowDown Brass Band Reviewed
October 31, 2025
The Tin Can Collective – The Thrill Is Gone
There’s someone who, at this very moment, is sharpening their pen and tuning their guitar and getting ready to write a song called “Stairway to Heaven.” No, not that one. Not a song that mentions ladies stuck on…
Stripes and SORRY IT'S OVER Reviewed
October 30, 2025
Stripes – 7/week
There are a million bands active at this very moment, or a number in the vicinity of it. Hundreds of musical styles and thousands of lyrical concepts are utilised. Some dress up and some dress down. But very few of them are honest or willing to…
Bonus Room and Dusty Joy Reviewed
October 24, 2025
Bonus Room – Blessed Be
Most of the truly great, wholly famous pop songs ever composed only contain three, four, maybe five chords. The vast majority of these songs can be picked up by an experienced musician within minutes. And, indeed, these musicians will be…
Florntenes and MJ Duke Reviewed
October 24, 2025
Florntenes – The News
It’s often said that rock n’ roll is a young man’s game. But for the most part, the people who keep saying this are either A&R people or famous rock stars. Both of these types tend to be old, wrinkled and look like they’re going…