Overblown • 7th March 2024

Real Estate interview: "this record is about finding out what maturity really is"

Real Estate are made from humble beginnings in New Jersey. Picture growing up, passing through the white picket fences as you plug your walkman in to blast some Weezer into your ears as you step onto the yellow school bus. It’s simple. Unadulterated indie rock that’s warm to the touch as it hums across your skin.

The same remains true for their sixth studio album, Daniel, proving that – although the band are now spread out across the states, starting families, and perhaps having more important

Distorted Sound Magazine • 23rd June 2024

Divided: Baby Steps Toward World Domination - Distorted Sound Magazine

The making and run up to the release of the debut album from DIVIDED, Light Will Shine, was full of nervous anticipation, but the West Flanders based post-metal outfit delivered a visceral and cathartic record that certainly achieved one thing: relief. Down to the screams, a combination of clattering drums that rub up against groaning riffs, the record results in something akin to a sonic sigh of relief.

“The first thing I felt was relief, because we were all kind of stressed out, I think that...

Skiddle.com • 17th April 2024

Dry Cleaning @ Hare & Hounds review: joy meets surrealism | Skiddle

The fact it was early in the work week didn’t stop the BBC 6 Music dads of Birmingham from striding into the Hare & Hounds for the past two sold-out nights for a chance to be graced by Dry Cleaning’s sound. Touring through North America and Europe, the quartet have had the chance to celebrate the reissue of their two early EPs with a cheeky mix of album tracks thrown into the set for good measure.

Drawing out the eccentric in the usual and mundane, they qualify as one of the most spellbinding p

The Rodeo Magazine • 27th September 2022

Katy J Pearson on the sound of the morning

The incredibly humble Katy J Pearson has seen a rise over the past two years since the release of her debut album, Return. Now, she has opened the floodgates with her follow-up, Sound Of The Morning. Her voice remains as sweet as ever as she tackles things that have attempted to sour her: despite having such a dreamy feel, she is firmly in touch with her reality.

“I’m very happy with how [Sound Of The Morning] has been received,” she points out, sitting in her parents’ frontroom. “It’s been ama

23rd February 2022

Vulnerability, Buddhism + Grief: Lady Bird on the true heart of the band | Gigwise

'It’s important to be vulnerable, isn’t it?'

In anticipation of their most important release to date, we at Gigwise just had to catch up with Lady Bird before their big day. Enter their debut album WE.

Despite some mental health tremors and other assorted hold-ups, WE is the Kent trio's most encompassing work to date, hitting on different parts of the punk spectrum. People are sure to be pleased with the work. So, after four years in the making, here they are talking all things Lady Bird.

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4th March 2022

Album Review: DITZ - The Great Regression | Gigwise

DITZ are back, baby! This time with their debut album The Great Regression, which hits on all things absurd with its palette of punk and noise. This is an album that owns its freedom, with no set narrative to be committed to.

You’re greeted by ‘Clocks’, its singing riffs quickly twisting into something much more dark and corrupted. Frontperson Cal Francis explodes into the first preach, yelling to relieve anxiety, to remove the pressure of demands of life.

Previously-released single ‘Ded Würst

Gigwise • 22nd March 2022

Live Review: Don Broco at Royal Albert Hall, London, 21/03/2022 | Gigwise

Don Broco opened up this year's Teenage Cancer Trust event with a full orchestra

Don Broco, orchestrated, at the Royal Albert Hall was a special one. In aid of Teenage Cancer Trust they played a set truly worthy of such an important cause. With this being the first TCT show in two years, Don Broco had a standard to set or in the words of host Sophie K “Let’s show them how a bunch of greebos do it!”. And boy did they show the Royal Albert Hall how to do it.

The orchestra are playing the band in

Gigwise • 12th April 2022

'Dogrel' - 3 Years On | Gigwise

Reflecting on Fontaines D.C's debut ahead of their 3rd album next week

One of the most anticipated albums of the year is quickly approaching as Fontaines D.C. — praised as the best band in the world — release their third studio album 'Skinty Fia' next week. With each release their sound has continued to evolve and shapeshift through their own personal growth, the sombre nuance that lined A Hero’s Death and more recently the singles on approach for the new album.

But it all started with 'Dogrel

Distorted Sound Magazine • 17th June 2022

ALBUM REVIEW: Equations For The Useless - Oreyeon

Italian four-piece OREYEON are primed and ready to unleash their brand new third album, Equations For The Useless. Recorded almost two years ago after a stagnant lockdown in the midst of pandemic, the four-piece offer up six tracks of doom inducing stoner-rock with the odd psychedelic flair.

First up is It Was Time; straight out of the gate its jagged and crunchy guitar riffs set the tone of the album well and do a good job of worming beneath your skin to encourage your body to move. Still thou

Rock Sins • 1st July 2022

TV Priest — My Other People Album Review

If there’s anything to preface TV PRIEST’S second album My Other People with, it’s that it might just be one of the most beautiful arrangements of music you’ll listen to this year. They executed magnificently on the politically-powered post-punk album trope with their first record Uppers — but since then the band have gone through immense intrinsic changes and growth.

My Other People is an album built on honesty, especially being honest with oneself, full of reflection and cathartic gut punches