Kid Bookie continues to strive to stand out with his brand of rap-rock, and while it has its moments, it’s not as inspired as it ultimately needs to be to feel great.
In this Review Round-Up, Bush return with a significant jump in quality, while plenty of diverse, explorative sounds come from Charlotte Wessels and My Kid Brother.
Parkway Drive utterly decimated Manchester’s AO Arena last weekend, with While She Sleeps and Lorna Shore in tow, and we were there to catch all of the action.
As visceral and wrenching as their best material always is, Counterparts’ newest provides yet more proof of how they’re among the most consistently excellent bands in hardcore.
In this Review Round-Up, a trio of strong new albums encompasses the grand return of LostAlone, frenetic, firebrand punk from The Bobby Lees, and genre-spanning symphonic rock from Scarlet Dorn.
Pulled Apart By Horses’ newest album winds up as their most stripped-back and straight-laced to date, but as a result feels very limited in exactly what it can achieve.
The second wind of Pixies continues, as they add older, dustier Americana to their alt-rock, and remain intriguing even without some of their old weirdness.
Classic rock revivalism once again proves unfortunately barren for Monster Truck, this time skewing a bit heavier but holding the same dearth of ideas or identity.
In this Review Round-Up, exemplary black-metal from GAEREA tops, followed closely by strong punk from Celebration Summer, and tailed by an underwhelming new EP from The Skinner Brothers.
In this Review Round-Up, both Lande Hekt and Yumi And The Weather strike on solid to strong indie-rock, while The Rasmus’ comeback becomes severely damper on their new album.