Tag: REVIEWS
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Replaced By Robots – The Ocean
“The Ocean” is the latest release by Replaced By Robots, a supergroup formed by David Goolkasian (The Elevator Drops), Heather Joy Morgan (painter and artist), and Adam Wade (Funeral Party). It’s their second piece of work in 2025 and an appropriate follow-up to “The Experiment,” their debut extended play released earlier this year, that you…
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Boxing Club – City Boy
“City Boy” is the latest release by Boxing Club, an outstanding band straddling the Glasgow–London divide. It’s their second piece of work in 2025, arriving after “Barbra,” and an excellent debut standalone single released earlier this year that you should also check out as soon as possible. It’s one of those tracks that immediately wraps…
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mUmbo – When It Was Quiet EP
“When It Was Quiet” is the latest release by mUmbo, an excellent English trio based in London. It’s their first piece of work this year, arriving after “Sky Is Blue,” “Fringe Benefits,” “Red Benefits,” and “A Little Life,” a series of marvellous standalone singles released throughout 2023 and 2024 that you should also check out…
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9 o’clock Nasty – Heavy
“Heavy” is the latest release by 9 o’clock Nasty, a prolific English genre-defying trio based in Leicester. Serving as a sixth standalone single from “Chaos,” their highly anticipated upcoming full-length, slated for release on March 13th, 2026, it further demonstrates their tremendous creativity, talent, and willingness to deliver a completely fresh, unique, innovative, and exciting…
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Feder – S/T LP (Grazil Records)
Feder, the Austrian trio based in Graz, released their self-titled album back in May this year. This fine piece of sonic artistry is the sound of existential dread being set to an anthem, a brilliant collision of noise and nuance. You get the raw, uncompromising punch of punk rock, but instead of straight-up street fury,…
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Lilac Vegetal – The Accursed Share
When a band decides to tackle the heavy end of the spectrum, they usually pick a lane, either the lumbering, monolithic groove of doom or the sharp, chaotic noise rock intensity. On their new monolithic release, The Accursed Share, Lilac Vegetal refuse to choose. They build a towering, structurally unsound monument by welding these disparate…
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ZEKE – Peterbilt 7″ (Hound Gawd! Records)
There are few bands in the history of aggressive music who can lay claim to having invented their own genre with such unrelenting efficiency as ZEKE. Since their emergence from the streets of Seattle, they have defined speed as a core philosophy. With the release of their new 7-inch, Peterbilt, the legends are definitely, gloriously…
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Tamar Berk – Indiesleaze 2005
We all had a particular times of our lives when we dreamed big without even thinking what future holds. For Tamar Berk, one of our favorite singer-songwriters, 2005 was a year where she spent her free time rehearsing and performing with various bands, looking for more gigs, and looking for more opportunites for her music…
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Julie Paschke – Cold In Your Town
“Cold In Your Town” is the latest single by Julie Paschke, an outstanding Australian singer-songwriter based in Melbourne. It’s her fifth piece of work in 2025, arriving as an appropriate continuation of “Bookends,” “Man As A Teacher,” “New Year,” and “Marigolds,” five excellent standalone singles released this year that you should also check out as…
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Hollows – Blood
Hollows are not like any other band you could stumble upon nowadays. In a vast sea of same and repetitive modern rock music, their songs shine in a limelight, proving there are still bands able to resonate with the same warmth, depth, meaning, and emotion. These profoundly creative musicians are capable of delivering that special…
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Generation Gap – Reconstruction LP (Grazil Records)
Generation Gap’s new album, Reconstruction, serves up a pure, unadulterated shot of high-octane energy, exactly proving what the phrase “music with purpose” means. It’s a supersonic manifesto delivered at 200 miles per hour, wrapped in the tightest, most irresistible rhythms you’ll hear all year. The moment you drop the needle on Reconstruction, the message is…
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Lilac Vegetal – Urlaub auf der Müllinsel 10″ (Grazil Records)
Lilac Vegetal’s 10” vinyl release, Urlaub auf der Müllinsel boldly demonstrates a more creative side of stoner, sludge, doom, and noise rock music. Hailing from the dual creative centers of Vienna and Graz, this Austrian trio builds a wall of sound, and then they invite you to try to climb it while they actively try…
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