Title track and lead single ‘WIRED’ presents all the elements of the album’s writing and production that make it work. A jungle-esque beat drives the verses, steely, overdriven bass and cleaner ...

Hidden within the increasingly gentrified confines of Digbeth, Birmingham, Supersonic Festival has been a sanctuary for ...

Heaven’s Gate’, finds the band in more familiar Portrayal Of Guilt territory (if there is such a thing), with a lo-fi, claustrophobic feel to the barrage of guitar and frantic blast beats. Similarly, ...

Touché Amoré – ‘Flowers and You’ Piper: Touché Amoré showed me how vulnerability and intensity can coexist without compromising either. The emotional honesty in their writing and how direct and ...

David Byrne – ‘We Dance Like This’ King: A premium yelper – obtuse and ordinary all at once – Byrne has that same off-kilter warmth as Bob Mortimer; joyfully strange, but deeply human. He can turn the ...

“I invoke war” roars Frozen Soul’s powerhouse vocalist Chad Green on the second track of ‘No Place Of Warmth’, the band’s mammoth third full-length album. One can’t help but hear it as a battle cry, a ...

In many ways this could apply to Knife Bride and their new EP ‘Sorry About The Plague’. Speaking of things sweeping across Europe, destroying everything in their path, Knife Bride have just returned ...

Sweet Pill’s sophomore release comes four years after their debut album ‘Where the Heart Is’. These four years have seen the band tour alongside La Dispute and The Wonder Years, head out on their own ...

Honesty is a strange thing. It isn’t the same as lying, but it’s not the same as truth either. A song doesn’t need truth to feel honest, just like how honesty isn’t always true. One of the best things ...

Joyce Manor have distilled the sound of watching gentrification happen to your favourite grimy neighbourhood into Californian punk gold. Their sixth album, ‘I Used To Go To This Bar’ drips with ...

Of course ‘Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death’, Creeper’s song awaited fourth album, is released on Halloween. And the fact it’s centred loosely around a Lost Boys-esque story about a vampire rock band ...

Black Stone Cherry are determined to mark their successes in life, and the very literally named ‘Celebrate’ is seven tracks dedicated to just this. That said, don’t expect songs you can blow out your ...