ALBUM REVIEW: ‘As You Were’ by Liam Gallagher
Liam Gallagher must love being himself. Not only does he get away with being the gobbiest of his brothers, dismissing anything and everything in modern music for no adequately explained […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Heaven Upside Down’ by Marilyn Manson
To anyone just getting acquainted with Marilyn Manson, it would perhaps seem strange that he was once a figure of genuine controversy. This is a man whose entire artistic identity […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘We Are The Parasite, We Are The Cancer’ by The King Is Blind
Alongside Venom Prison, The King Is Blind are one of the UK’s most important new metal bands, because they’re a beacon of how much the sea change within rock music […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Great Heights & Nosedives’ by ROAM
It’s easy to feel sorry for ROAM. Coming around at a time when UK pop-punk had hit an unassailable peak was bad enough, but they did it in perhaps the […]
EP REVIEW: ‘Inside A Dream’ by Echosmith
2013 saw the release of Echosmith’s debut album Talking Dreams, an album that shone past any preconceptions of pop rock to genuinely stand among the year’s best. As a result […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Party Monsters’ by The Haxans
It feels as though this album has been floating in the ether for ages now, originally announced in April and teased right the way up to its release in mid-October. […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Worry’ by Canvas
One of the advantages of melodic hardcore is that, as long as you’re believable in what you’re selling, innovation can usually be eschewed without many major consequences. It’s definitely worked […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Judas’ by Fozzy
If Fozzy wasn’t fronted by Chris Jericho, they wouldn’t stand a chance in the modern rock world. It’s just fortunate that they are really and that they’ll always have the […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Visions Of A Life’ by Wolf Alice
Ellie Rowsell, Wolf Alice’s eclectic soul, recently stated in an interview with The Fader that whenever she’s asked what music her band plays, she simply replies “rock music”. There’s something […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘As You Please’ by Citizen
Citizen are no strangers to the advancement of their sound, nor to the backlash that can ultimately result in. As much as their 2013 debut Youth embodied the sound of […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Pinewood Smile’ by The Darkness
The reason that The Darkness’ Permission To Land was so successful wasn’t because the mid-2000s was crying out for a glam-metal revival, but mainly because in terms of satirising that […]
LIVE REVIEW: Turnover @ Sound Control, Manchester – 27th September 2017
Thanks to their modern-classic release Peripheral Vision in 2015, Virginia’s Turnover have developed an almost cultish following in recent years. Fans defend both the record and band with their lives, […]
EP REVIEW: ‘Black To Blues’ by Black Stone Cherry
On paper, this seems like a total no-brainer. You’ve got Black Stone Cherry, the Southern-rock / blues-rock wunderkinds who even the harshest detractors of the US’s radio-rock lineup give a […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Broke’ by Astroid Boys
Now that grime has become a much more visible form of music, the discussion about whether it really is the new punk definitely holds more weight, a genre that ultimately […]
The Soundboard Stereo – September 2017
As ever, September has been swamped in high-profile releases from seemingly every major act on the planet, and what’s even more surprising is how many of them have actually been […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Waiting To Derail’ by Paceshifters
As much as certain bands love to attach a gimmick to themselves to mask any musical shortcomings and bump up their number of clicks, ultimately the ones who stand the […]
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