Redeemon – High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom The forthcoming Redeemon and Redeemon landed in my submissions inbox after a message from a scene compadre enquiring unto whether if I would review a Ska release. Now, if you know me, despite enjoying a great deal of Ska-Punk music as a younger…
Full NutritionHike The Peak – Sheffield, England, United Kingdom So, it is now. The EP premiere of Hike The Peak and Three. Collaboration is Punk and I will not accept any rhetoric pertaining to the contrary. Cross-border, cross-country collaboration and projects are nothing new but amidst this COVID-age, where burning creativity is confined, it…
Full NutritionRodents – Manchester, England, United Kingdom Post-Punk is somewhat of a fluid term within the greater Punk scene. Today, I am introducing Rodents to provide some up and coming evidence unto why this is an indisputably good thing. Manchester is where the four-piece’s reside. A city that like other cultural…
Full NutritionChalk Hands – Brighton, England, United Kingdom Chalk Hands and ‘Fail, Grasp, Restore’ are soon to arrive this Friday. The former, a band hailing from Brighton that akin to many were also active in the before-fore times, have endured, survived and busied themselves against the backdrop of the brave new…
Full NutritionRash Decision – Falmouth, England, United Kingdom And so, we are here. The video premiere of Rash Decision and ‘Beasts Of England’ is upon us after a road of setbacks, twists, turns and an incalculable amount of sitting down. Within the UK Punk scene, the band require little introduction. That…
Full NutritionPassionflower – Warrington, England, United Kingdom Passionflower: A Year Of Growth. It’s been a long road for the former even prior to this discombobulating new norm we occupy. However, the Warrington project fronted by one Kyle Richardson-Nickle is finally and much to their delight, ready to release a culmination work that has…
Full NutritionDouglas Firs – Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom Douglas Firs with Something In The Trees emerged from the audio-terra-firma sometime in early 2021, after previously knocking around, sprouting and making use of the comparatively easier but still dwindling photosynthesis of the before-fore times. The world is invariably fucked but that doesn’t…
Full Nutritionsnake eyes – Brighton, England, United Kingdom snake eyes and the lovehate mixtape (side a) almost, very nearly, persuaded me to type this whole review in lower case. However, because I’m obviously a huge and obsequious stickler for the rules of grammar, I won’t. I joke. I may know some…
Full NutritionFair Do’s – Manchester, England, United Kingdom Ah, yes, the video premiere of Fair Do’s with ‘Love & Light’. A band moniker used in a variety of ways and nuances depending on the mood, flanked by a painfully positive and often forced term of pseudo-optimism, itself synonymous with toe-the-line societal appearances. Well,…
Full NutritionGILT – Jacksonville, Florida, USA Ripcord Records – Scotland, United Kingdom Here we are again, but this time for the premiere of GILT and ‘No Surprise’ (Fugazi) via Ripcord Records. As you may or may not know, Ripcord Records of sunny Scotland are putting together a forty-three track compilation in ode to…
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