After a few reviews of stuff I already knew I’d like, Tony has sent me something I’ve never heard of to spice things up (just
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The Last Gang – Noise Noise Noise (Fat Wreck Chords, 2021)
I’m not too familiar with The Last Gang (Tony reviewed the previous record Keep Them Guessing here), but I have seen them popping up on
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Shackleford – III (Side Mission Records / Cats Claw Records, 2021)
Dean from Side Mission has raved about Shackleford for a while, this album has been a while coming so I’m quite keen to hear it.
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Face to Face – No Way Out but Through (Fat Wreck Chords, 2021)
This is the new Face to Face record out on Fat Wreck. Tony asked me to review it as he said he finds them ‘dull
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Wolves In the Throne Room – Primordial Arcana (Relapse Records/Century Media, 2021)
Cascadian black metal OGs, Wolves in the Throne Room, are back after a four year break with their seventh album, Primordial Arcana. This also marks
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7in and EP round-up: September 2021 (part 2)
Spells / Custody split 7in (Brassneck Records) The observant amongst you (realistically who is even paying attention to any of this and does it even
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7in and EP round-up: September 2021 (part 1)
So some dickhead decided to come back from hiatus and foolishly advertised this fact on Facebook. Seemingly I now have a load of stuff to
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Dog Heaven – There is Only… (Everything Sucks / Rad Girlfriend Records, 2021)
Apologies to Dave and all at Everything Sucks and Josh at Rad Girlfriend – this review is somewhat delayed for various of the usual reasons:
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Heavy Seas – Everything Breaks (Little Rocket Records / Rad Girlfriend Records / Sell the Heart Records, 2021)
Do you know what’s great? When people you have a great deal of admiration for put a load of effort into writing, recording and releasing
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Lower Automation – Lower Automation (Zegema Beach, 2021)
Chicago mathpunks, Lower Automation, have based their self-titled record around a single premise: let’s make the weirdest record we can. They originally made 12 demos,
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