‘Post punk’, ‘taut rock’ noise and ‘Shoegaze’ are three words typically not associated with Rock. Yet Crows somehow manage to weave these sub-genres into their clearly Rock-focussed album. The band already has a solid string of singles under its belt. Since its formation in 2015, its members have concocted a multi-layered, Rock-esque sound. Silver Tongues…
Month: March 2019
Album Review: Forest Management – Passageways
Punctured only by an occasional clicking beat, like the flicking open and closed of a comatose eyelid through the blurry passage of time, the perfectly titled ‘Ageless Imagination’ opens the new Forest Management album, Passageways, with gentle and ethereal ambience. This tiny, flickering ostinato is in fact the only beat of any kind throughout the…
Album Review: The Sh-booms: The Blurred Odyssey – Songs of Rock and Soul
Ah, the Sh-Booms. A soulful six-piece plucked straight out of a different era. Let’s skip a few generations. The band formed in 2011 as a team of five, somewhat scruffy – yet massively talented artists. Fast forward five years, and the Orlando group began to inject soul into their unvarnished garage style – to great…
Album Review: SOWFLO: New Shoes – Thematic Turns and Positive Vibes
Poppy, reggae beats resound in the latest offering from the (SO)uth-(W)est-(FLO)rida-based five piece. Off the back of the success of their 2016 debut Such Is Life – which reached fifth place in the Billboard reggae charts – the reggae/rock quintet have teamed up once more with Marc Lee (Damian Marley, Stephen Marley) to produce this…
EP Review: Hate Club: A Clear Mistake – One Hell of an Auditory Ride
Scorching, slick and new, A Clear Mistake is the latest installment from the New York Indie punks, Hate Club. In just three searing tracks, the band display a diverse lyrical and stylistic range. How? Through interlacing 90s Indie tropes – most likely influenced by the likes of Pixies and Sonic Youth – with raucous energy….
