Loathe’s long-awaited new album is a difficult and occasionally frustrating listen, but one that gets more brilliant with each additional spin.
Tag: shoegaze
In this Review Round-Up, Super Sometimes’ pop-punk proves routinely solid, while new albums from CQ Wrestling and Dan Byrne are more notable in their limitations.
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.
Nothing open up—musically and thematically—for a heady exploration of shoegaze, emo and alt-rock that contains some of their most arresting moments to date.
MØL’s hybrid of black-metal, post-metal and shoegaze continues to push and open its boundaries, with tremendously evocative results.
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.
In this Review Round-Up, a step back from Blanket still proves pretty decent, alongside more good stuff from Rifle and The Just Joans.
2025 is coming to a close, so we’ve gone back through the last 12 months to take a look at all the major rock, metal, punk and alternative releases that we missed.
In the final Review Round-Up of 2025, new releases from Seven Blood and Deficit wrap the year up on a sour note, but male//gaze prove strong enough to pull it back somewhat.
Turnover arrive in Manchester on their continuing celebration of ‘Peripheral Vision’, for a full airing of one of the most beloved emo albums of the modern era.