The newest phase of Against The Current serves as a proper reintroduction, with all the qualities to make it their best yet.
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Royal Blood are back to basics on their new album, and—would you believe it?—the limitations are as prominent as ever.
Even though every usual attribute of a Nickelback album is present and accounted for on their newest, it still manages to disappoint.
They’re one of the premier names in alt-rock at the minute, and as Keo’s headline tour arrives at Liverpool’s O2 Academy, there’s no danger of that changing anytime soon.
Refusing to even entertain the idea of change or evolution, thrown prove as underwhelming as ever.
Although Disgusting Sisters have promise, the arrangement of their debut and its approaches to indie- and alt-pop leave a hell of a lot to be desired.
Blind Channel largely remain fixed in modern alt-metal’s ho-hum ways, though some glimpses of inspiration count for a little.
Stepping into darker, more dramatic alt-rock only builds Against The Current up more, leading to some of their strongest, most confident work to date.
Against all odds, and by virtue of showing more effort and investment than customary, Windwaker have followed the modern metalcore playbook and emerged with a genuinely good album.
In this Review Round-Up, punk and metalcore each deliver a pair of strong releases—Fake Names and Niis for the former; Gore. and VRSTY for the latter.