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Forest Swords - Engravings 25 Aug 2013 | 06:36 am
Describing a debut album as 'long-awaited' is something of a cliché when it comes to writing about new releases, used to herald a new act's debut release, even if in reality no one had really heard of...
Outfit - Performance 22 Aug 2013 | 12:37 pm
Outfit's full debut album feels like a missed opportunity. At times during this 10 track record, they sound great, at ease and meaningful, sadly these times are few and far between. Outfit's stubborn ...
No Age - An Object 21 Aug 2013 | 10:53 am
Anyone who has read Michael Azerad's seminal history of American post-punk and hardcore; Our Band Could Be Your Life, is likely to have a romantic idyll of bands achieving success through hard work an...
White Lies - Big TV 18 Aug 2013 | 03:40 pm
Back at the tail end of the Noughties (how long before indie clubs up and down the land are hosting Jäger Bomb-fuelled nights in tribute to that oddly-monikered decade?), a precocious yet nervy Ealing...
White Hills - So You Are...So You'll Be 18 Aug 2013 | 09:18 am
White Hills have been on a seemingly never-ending roll for the last few years, releasing album-after-album of explosive modern psychedelia. 2011s HP-1 was a sprawling, monolithic masterpiece, while la...
Ty Segall - Sleeper 18 Aug 2013 | 08:42 am
Ty Segall must be pretty knackered by now. The last few years have been a relentless run of studio albums, collaborations and touring that would take its toll on even the most resilient (check his Wik...
Ladada - Ladada 16 Aug 2013 | 10:33 am
If you pride yourself on meticulously collecting and preserving records on vinyl and won't listen to any other format then, to put it simply, you're going to miss out. Breaking that habit of a lifetim...
Man or Astro-Man? - Defcon 5…4…3…2…1 15 Aug 2013 | 11:49 am
Man or Astroman's music is like listening to the Tasmanian Devil performing a 50s mash-up. It is a whirlwind of rock n roll that wraps and lifts you up into the kind of desperate joy you only get when...
R.Stevie Moore - Personal Appeal 15 Aug 2013 | 06:23 am
There's something a little amusing about R. Stevie Moore releasing a rarities and obscurities collection. The 'Grandfather of DIY' has been putting out albums on everything from vinyl to cassette sinc...
Medicine - To The Happy Few 13 Aug 2013 | 04:14 pm
After last year's welcome re-issue and re-packaging of their first two albums following such a long time out of print, it was even more of a surprise to hear that early-to-mid-90s noise advocators Med...
