Album Review: Boy Jumps Ship – Lovers & Fighters
Newcastle quartet Boy Jumps Ship have been kicking around for a few years now, gathering a small following here and there. Now their hard work
Newcastle quartet Boy Jumps Ship have been kicking around for a few years now, gathering a small following here and there. Now their hard work
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On the surface, it looked like the debut LP from Swedish sextet Surviving The Charade bears all the hallmarks of a great debut album, given
“Breaking boundaries!” seems to be such a cliché phrase to find in a press release these days. So many bands are “crossing over” or “knocking
Sometimes you let your expectations get too high, and this is something I had this week when it came to reviewing the debut record from
Sad and French are not French, but they are most definitely sad. They are sad about a girl, or a number of girls, with whom
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Music, like everything, works on a cyclical basis. In the early stages of a genre, popularity spreads like an unearthly plague to everything it touches
Masked Intruder’s 2012 debut was one of my favourite releases of that year; last year I stalked them on numerous tour dates and I’m still
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This week, the debut EP, ‘We the Working Class’, of Sean Grant and The WolfGang, although not to my usual taste, is a refreshing one.
It’s impossible to hear the mention of InMe without thinking back to the days of ‘Underdose’ and ‘Firefly’, when the baby faced Essex lads were
As much as I’ve been putting off saying this sentence, I’m just going to have to go ahead and say it; this is the first
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Unless your band name happens to be The Xcerts, I would strongly suggest avoiding comparisons to Brand New in your pitch-paragraph. This oddly frequent, and
In today’s music scene dominated by bands in search of instant gratification and success, it can be unusual for an act to reach its fifth
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It seems like the third album from Bury Tomorrow has been a longtime coming. Announced in January, ‘Runes’ finally sees the light of day this
The first thing that really grabs you when you put on ‘Burden’ is that this is exactly what Death Cab For Cutie would sound like
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When I was younger there used to be these two brothers who were the archetypical Punks in our town; being a small, fairly traditional English