ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Hollywood’s Bleeding’ by Post Malone
Here’s a question – how has Post Malone actually reached this point? When considering his place in hip-hop, it’s not one that’s usually met favourably, especially by more traditional fans […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘PROXY: An A.N.I.M.O Story’ by Being As An Ocean
Right now, the preconceptions about Being As An Ocean are probably just as well-known as the band itself. They may have started as just another emotional hardcore band (albeit one […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘The Drew Thomson Foundation’ by The Drew Thomson Foundation
There’s something about The Drew Thomson Foundation that emanates a sense of purity. Maybe it’s because this is the more straightforward, personal side-project of its eponymous mainman away from the […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘The Perfect Ending’ by Cassels
Cassels are undoubtedly a unique prospect, but it feels like they’re yet to really find a distinct footing to capitalise on that uniqueness. They’ve certainly made an impact over the […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Nella Vita’ by Grayscale
Grayscale’s Adornment really proved to be a sleeper hit in 2017, the sort of pop-punk album on the fringes of emo that’s not uncommon, but rarely catch the attention at […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘How It Feels To Be Lost’ by Sleeping With Sirens
If there’s one band that’s the embodiment of how to fail upwards, it’s most likely Sleeping With Sirens. By all rights, this is a band who should be nowhere near […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Pressure’ by Wage War
Although Wage War have never been ones to test the limits of modern metalcore, they at least felt almost deserving of being dubbed prospective breakthrough leaders of the scene a […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Fear Inoculum’ by Tool
It almost feels wrong to have this album, like rock’s most elusive cryptid has finally been captured and laid bare for the world to see. It was ultimately inevitable, though; […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Smile Wide’ by ROAM
For a period, it looked as though ROAM finally had everything figured out. While their debut Backbone introduced them as a bigger presence in the scene, it didn’t do anything […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Positive Rising: Part 1’ by DZ Deathrays
If anyone had written off DZ Deathrays at this point, it’d be hard to blame them. Up to now, they’ve not done much to differentiate themselves from scores of other […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Prang’ by Gender Roles
It says a lot when there’s genuine buzz around an upcoming indie-punk band that isn’t just another product of scene inertia. Brighton’s Gender Roles may lean heavier on the punk […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘A Different Shade Of Blue’ by Knocked Loose
It’s been interesting to chronicle the growth of Knocked Loose over the past handful of years. Their 2016 debut Laugh Tracks was a solid if relatively unremarkable metallic hardcore album, […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘forevher’ by Shura
On her debut Nothing’s Real, there wasn’t much about Shura that exhibited the traditional trappings of a pop star. There were great songs there, sure, with 2Shy being the 2010s’ […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘The Center Won’t Hold’ by Sleater-Kinney
When Sleater-Kinney drummer Janet Weiss announced her departure from the band just a few weeks ago, and cited the band’s new direction as her reason for doing so, it felt […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘No Man’s Land’ by Frank Turner
So much more has been said around this album than about it, and it’s not hard to see why. Frank Turner hasn’t exactly been averse to controversies over the past […]
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘Atonement’ by Killswitch Engage
If there’s one word that could be best used to describe Killswitch Engage, it would be ‘reliable’. For a band considered among the forefathers of what metalcore would come to […]
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