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Band of the week - This week
 Not the 80's aftershave or the porn search criteria. White Swallow the rock duo deal in melodic stomp and barbarian amp destruction with more hooks than a velcro front door. The verses are tuneful and droll, the choruses stomp on the pedal and erupt. These things will never stop being fun.
Latest single 'Belong Song' sees them channeling their inner Glenn Danzig; Bobby Mambo's languid Lancastrian vowels steadily wind up to a shirt-ripping howl and a low string, high register guitar salvo. Meanwhile, Sam Swallows switches adroitly between metronomic thump and machine gun fills. It's backed with 'Roses' which is built upon a fuzzy blues riff you might...
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Band of the week - Archive
 I want to put them in a shoebox full of wood shavings and keep them under my bed. This guitar/vocals duet are warm without being wet, romantic without being twee, and retain a dark undercurrent while bobbing merrily along in their rickety old coracle.
I'll start with 'Wind and High Water', which is my favourite of the handful of...
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 It must be hard being a new band at the moment, where seemingly it's more about how much money you can spend on your PR campaign as opposed to what your music actually sounds like. A shite state of affairs, but that seems to be the nature of the industry beast. Luckily, I get pissed off with the amount of stale, force-fed bullshit that comes...
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 They hail from the historic medieval city of BraÅŸov in Romania, and create their own ambitious brand of grindcore which blazes with unrestrained expression. Coins as Portraits' debut album, 'Form and Structure. Storm and Fracture.', while bilious and complex, is fresh and physically engaging.
At first I wonder how the band...
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 First off, I'd like you listen to 'The Lightning Fork' right here, right now. Please.
I think that is a great track, don't you? In fact, I now always have a quick listen to any band before reading a PR blurb or even a Band of the Week entry. Because if you're like me, you'll see words like 'moody', '...
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 The ease of accessibility to music production software is somewhat of a double edged sword as far as i can see. On the one hand, it allows thousands people across the world to express themselves creatively at little to no cost other than just their time and hard work. On the other hand however, with a sudden influx of producers all jostling for...
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 These boys and girls are, as far as I can verify, a London-based six-piece, although their blog says a seven-piece; either someone has departed or the splendid bison/town depicted on the sleeve of their latest EP goes uncredited. The impressive thing about Bleeding Heart Narrative is that they fit in with a modern indie-rock aesthetic (prominent...
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 Italian prog-poppers Planet Brain are well worth investigating if glacial modern rock with an adventurous streak yanks your crank. Their latest EP starts in alluring fashion with a serpentine guitar melody over a spattering drum fill, and it's a fine bit of spacious post-rock. I might as well get this out of the way early: vocalist Marcello...
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 If indeed convenience culture and social media are reconfiguring our brain function, then the 72% Morrissey EP is the perfect soundtrack to the descent of humanity into self-replicating fertiliser. It's noisy, bouncy, distressing, baffling, fun and gone in the blink of an eye. You like this.
The three-piece offer succinct...
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 Ethereal, eerie, and minimalist. London girl/boy duo, Still Corners have written a selection of mesmerisingly beautiful pop songs, then blurred and smudged every little sound within them to create something both instantly memorable and effortlessly cool. There's a certain indeterminable being within Still Corner's music which seduces you...
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