Post-hiatus, Have Mercy cast a brighter, more optimistic figure on a new album of safe yet solid emo.
Category: Reviews
In the final Review Round-Up of 2023, throwback-rock still isn’t any more interesting coming from Bad Touch, though ERASE THEORY and Felicette deliver some solid EPs as a counterbalance.
A simultaneous throwback and modernising of emo’s halcyon days has rarely sounded better than on LiL Lotus’ new album, as an illustration of exactly how this scene can get it right.
HEALTH strike hard and fast after their previous album, while undergoing some vast augmentation and streamlining for their most crushing industrial assault yet.
The Goa Express’ debut shows off all the excitability you’d expect from a group of fast-rising indie upstarts, as well as the lack of distinct identity and memorability they’re also often saddled with.
Pincer+ step up their game significantly on their new EP, and subsequently find themselves at the cutting edge of what current-day metalcore has to offer.
Stepping out of Frank Turner’s shadow, The Sleeping Souls feel like much more than a backing band on a debut with an impressive breadth of indie-rock and alt-punk goodness.
In this Review Round-Up, great heavy music from Racetraitor stands next to some that could use a bit of work from Future Static, as well as a pair of EPs with a lot of promise from Birdmask and Colourburn.
Through an industrial-trap lens and a place of deep-seated purpose, n0trixx’s new EP comes out as one of the most fascinating and complete recent listens in its field.
With an approach to deathgrind that’s just as fun as it is unwaveringly brutal, Rank And Vile’s debut arrives among the scene’s most surprising highlights for the year.