Album Review: Cardinal Cardinal – Distant Lover
When I hear the phrase “acoustic side-project”, I’m never really sure what to expect. For every City & Colour there are a thousand people who
When I hear the phrase “acoustic side-project”, I’m never really sure what to expect. For every City & Colour there are a thousand people who
The Chuck Ragan that the world is treated to nowadays is not the same entity that was present when Hot Water Music first came to
In the arena of instrumental post-rock, possibly the most difficult aspect to purvey is emotion – without any vocals, it may be difficult to find
It’s safe to say that Jonny Fox, more commonly known as Itch, has had a more colourful life than most. From living in a squat
It’s clear from the beginnings of ‘The Pursuit’, the debut album from Winchester post-metallers Echoes, that they have struck a wonderful balance between heavy and
To me, acoustic music is a genre. Playing a heavy song on an acoustic guitar doesn’t make it an acoustic song, it just means it’s
This is a pop punk record, pure and simple. A throwback to the best days of Drive-Thru, grounded in the present. As It Is sound
There’s something about pop punk that is indelibly linked with summertime in my head (and lets be honest, plenty of others). Whether it’s The Ataris’
Taking Back Sunday have matured. Not just on this record but since their first offering, ‘Tell All Your Friends’. This latest effort is another solid,
One of the biggest drawbacks of dating a musician is that on breaking up, you run the risk of having a song or two written
Making good post-hardcore can be tough. In a genre so nebulous that anything from Fugazi to Pierce The Veil comes under the same banner, it
Bottler’s EP is one of the most humourous, fun EPs I’ve heard in a long time. Sounding like a mix of Frank Carter’s Gallows, John
Virtuoso technical guitar god Tosin Abasi and his instrumental prog-metal outfit Animals As Leaders are back with their surprisingly easy listening third album ‘The Joy
I’m not going to lie, the Russian metal scene isn’t something I know a great deal about. However, if it’s all as good as Planara’s
Whatever way you look at it, this a difficult review to write. It would have been hard enough ten years ago, when post-rock giants 65daysofstatic
After it had looked for quite a while like the 12’’ split between Nightmares For A Week and Banquets would be condemned to never seeing
Irish four piece Former Monarchs hail from Cork, Ireland and have spent the majority of the last couple of years preparing this, their debut full
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover and you probably shouldn’t judge an album by its title. However, with Seahaven’s latest effort,
As I begin to type this review, it’s an absolutely gorgeous Sunday; the sun is out, the temperatures are in their late teens and (not
‘Rooms Of The House’ is La Dispute’s best album yet. If you trust my judgement you could easily stop reading at the end of this
Here we have something very special. Very special indeed. 2 years ago, Suicide Silence’s lead singer Mitch Lucker tragically passed away. He had been the
When it comes to supergroups, Elder Brother is one that has remained a little more off the radar than most. A collaboration between Daybreaker’s Dan
About five years ago, I would have talked endlessly about how great metalcore is. The constant beat-downs, machine-precise kick drums and over-fondness for a hearty
If I’m assigned a band of which I have no prior knowledge whatsoever, I like to start by stalking their Facebook page like a cyber
For a record to be considered properly great it needs everything to fall perfectly in to place on a variety of levels. For the New