On a debut that’s a near-perfect synthesis of shoegaze, grunge and melodic hardcore, Silo are already well on their way towards stepping up from their newcomer status.
Tag: Easy Life Records
On their debut full-length, everything that previously worked about Softcult’s fusion of shoegaze, grunge and pop remains, only now feeling even more resolute.
With their peaks being in towering, explosive post-hardcore, Normandie ripping all of that down for stiffer, smaller pop-rock goes exactly as well as you’d expect.
Recentred and ready to soar once again, Lonely The Brave’s current incarnation hits its newest peak with their hefty, ever-affecting alt-rock.
Softcult’s newest all killer, no filler EP acts as their most definitive creative statement yet, and a working of grunge and dream-pop that’s among the best around.
The jump to more polished indie-pop puts Fatherson in basically the same position as all who’ve tried it before them, namely with music that’s fairly likable but devoid of the flavour and resonance they once had.
In this Review Round-Up, Pale Waves shake up and slowthai courts controversy, among new albums from Normandie, The Hold Steady, MOD SUN, Love And Death, John The Ghost, Humanity’s Last Breath, Wild Pink, Dizzy Bats and Stretch Panic.
In the first Review Round-Up of 2021, new releases from Lonely The Brave, The Dirty Nil and a covers EP from The Xcerts kick things off, alongside LICE, Viagra Boys, Passenger, NEED and Wall.