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 Damn those Vandals. Perusing the internet for some background information on the band is a thankless affair. No biography as far as I can venture...a deliberate ploy perhaps? Are they playing the mystery card in an attempt to appear elusive and carefree? As if they do not give a damn? Well if so, fair play to them. With very little to go on, I...
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 “At 2.19am my brother began to stir in his coffin…”
And so begins Megachurch’s second offering Megachurch 2: Judgment Day. The album cover features a bloke in a suit wielding a golden sword whilst straddling a fluorescent green dragon. A pink and blue volcano blows its stack in the background. Subtle it isn’t...
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 Up until this point, Cloudkicker’s reputation has rested some pretty righteous slabs of instrumental and technical post-metal. 2010’s Beacons earned wide praise for its combination of furious polymetric riffing and unsettling, claustrophobic atmospheres. It was a breakout album whose quality gave some real weight to the Cloudkicker...
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 Anyone fancy starting a betting syndicate? A US firm of bookmakers is offering odds of 1,000,000-1 on the Mayan Apocalypse going down in 2012. A quid each, we can share the load of the stake. And it's looking dicey out there. But of course, how long would we have left to collect and spend the winnings should our horse come in? I suspect the...
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 Prog rock firebrand Ben Sommer is a man on a mission; bayonet-ended guitar in hand, he's going to advance with his one man army whether you're listening or not. 'Super Brain' sounds like the result of some kind of creative outburst, moving further away from the succinct rockism and sloganeering of previous album 'America'd...
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 I think it’s only fair to tell you right from the start that, right now, I think Gnod are the best band on the planet. So with this in mind, expect little in the way of balanced judgement and an automatic assurance of a five-star review.
Gnod are from Salford and have a constantly shifting identity, in which members switch roles and...
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 In the late 1990’s/early 2000’s, back when MTV were brave enough to screen their leftfield, alternative music programme ‘Alternative Nation’, a new breed of guitar orientated progressive indie music came to the fore, on both sides of the pond. Bands started to move away from chord- based, angst-ridden indie-rock into a more...
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 MinionTV, a 5 piece atmospheric instrumental rock band from Liverpool, England, have released a 5-track EP, 'Arecibo', which takes its name from the Puerto Rican observatory.
The opening track, ‘Send’ is no more than an intro to the EP, a taste of things to come if you will, which comfortably leads into the...
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The very minute this record begins I know I am in love with it; emotional singer/songwriter folk-punk that just knocks your socks off, plain and fucking simple. Much akin to the awesome noises of Sam Russo, it’s gutsy, simplistic and manages to grab your soul by the scruff right from the off. It’s all talk of friendship, love-...
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This isn't any old indie-folk. This is M&S indie folk. You can smell the motes of dust floating from reverberating acoustic strings. The sound is lush, the vocals are pitch-perfect, mellifluous harmonies ooze from every tune. But can we ever settle for sonic refinement when ultimately the content is so depressingly empty and...
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