The Expanse Of The Internet “May Have Missed Volume 5” is an attempt to counter the volume of requests I receive in the various Ear Nutrition inboxes as I type away. The venture of EN, when it boils down to the barebones of itself, is a spare-time hobby. I try…
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Maisonette – Brighton, England, United Kingdom Maisonette, Panic Earth and the rapidly growing DIY Punk label INiiT Records. The former’s gruff, sardonic and Post-Hardcore-spun existentialism-encumbered Punk is the latest acquisition of the latter and that’s today’s deep dive. The Brighton four-piece have a handful of warped, discordant and poignant Emo-lacquered…
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Fair Do’s – Manchester, England, United Kingdom Fair Do’s and Our ‘Casket’. Where to begin? Well, ‘Casket’ is a song concerning the ever-widening death-box society is building itself. Such a tomb is being constructed in double-time and its workers are mired in an intoxicating miasma of their own incredulity and…
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Stay Awake – Bangkok, Thailand Punk music and community have permeated the globe. This is entirely where Stay Awake and the Portraits EP come in. Though Thailand isn’t usually synonymous with Punk and underground Rock, such a sentiment would be a mistake. It’s definitely there and entirely why a band…
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One Million Motors – Newcastle, England, United Kingdom Sonic and personnel alternation. That’s the game I’m told. One Million Motors and ‘You’re Not Viable (You Just Don’t Know It Yet)’ are very much part of these shifting sands of sound. Their locale is Newcastle but their compositional journey is a…
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Cuffs – Bristol, England, United Kingdom It’s a strange time for live music. Cuffs and their Factory Sessions exist within such oddity. “Sit-down” gigs and shows are approaching “commonplace” status in some areas across the country and social media is lovingly awash with gig posters once more. Although the live show experience…
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Dragged In – Toronto, Ontario, Canada Though originally released in 2020 and not one for longwinded titles, Dragged In and LP1 have made their way into 2021 via Cursed Blessings Records. The Toronto, Ontario Hardcore Punks have been placing their own seal on the history of the ‘core since 2015…
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Haest – Hastings, England, United Kingdom Earlier this year, Haest and Distrusted Uniforms appeared. The former being attributed but not limited to its status as a lumbering leviathan of loquacious Punk ethics. One that presents as a heavy-set, brooding mass of Doom aesthetic, Noise Rock and Post-Hardcore. It is safe to say…
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Harker – Brighton, England, United Kingdom After some years of cross-referencing Punk rooted stylistics, Harker and their Axiom are close. The Brighton band for those who don’t know, have been releasing music and kicking around showing it to the world since 2015. The band’s robust back catalogue cascades and meanders…
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Havelocke – Sheffield, England, United Kingdom Havelocke and their Arsonist have a rich and fierce history of nightmares behind them and that is where they will stay, in the past. Now, in this here 2021, with one EP behind them while they sit on the precipice of the chasm their Skate…
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