Album Review: Biffy Clyro – A Celebration Of Endings (14th Floor Records)
At the core of this album, Biffy Clyro is a great Power-Pop trio. Relentlessly upbeat in mood even if a lot of the lyrics are dark, dystopian and desperate.
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EP Review: K M T P – P.S. C U Soon (Sunreturn)
On this debut EP, K M T P delivers simple songs as comfort food for the soul. Of a young person raised in the rural heartland, and wondering how to fit into a city. A coming of age.
Album Review: Fontaines DC – A Hero’s Death (Partisan Records)
The young Irish band, Fontaines DC, performs an exorcism of music and travel through dark shadows to emerge to the peace in the valley.
Album Review: Fantastic Negrito – Have You Lost Your Mind Yet? (Cooking Vinyl)
Drawing in as many diverse elements of African-American music as you could care to name, Fantastic Negrito has presented a heady gumbo of an album which will surely garner a further Grammy nomination, to go with the two previous awards.
Album Review: Billy Nomates – No (Invada)
A fresh and feisty young artist, Billy Nomates steps up to the world with a debut album of Stand-Up Rap Beat Poetry. This is the sound of the suburbs, streets and supermarkets.
Album Review: DMA’s – The Glow (I OH YOU)
The Glow is the 3rd studio album from Australian trio DMA’s is a shiny fast-moving brand new airmobile of Indie Rock and Britpop, fronted by a gifted singer.
Album Review: Psychedelic Furs – Made Of Rain (CookingVinyl)
Punk-era Art Rockers Psychedelic Furs let loose a stunning album of new material, 29 years after the last one. The brothers Richard Butler and Tim Butler are Voice and bass guitar, Poet and the Rhythm. The album is Made of Rain.
Album Review: The Stooges – Live at Goose Lake: August 8, 1970 (Third Man Records)
A legendary set from a Michigan Music Festival is unearthed, and we get to hear some of the primal raw power of the original Punks, The Stooges, in their classic line-up.
Album Review: Hockey Dad – Brain Candy (BMG)
The third album from Australian duo, Hockey Dad, and they lay down their indisputable credentials as a life-affirming Power Pop force to be reckoned with.
Concert Review: Wax Chattels – Whammy Bar July 24, 2020
The Art Terrorists Wax Chattels transform the Whammy Bar into the Large Hadron Collider for an hour and bombard the audience until we’ve all had our synapses rearranged and minds suitably blown. In a great way.