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Duke Keats – Heavy Heartbreak

The last time we heard Coventry performer Duke Keats was on last year’s sprawling jazz-funk live recorded odyssey, ‘Dirty Glamour’. His latest single ‘Heavy Heartbreak’ is a large-scale departure from 2023’s EP, finding the artist distilling his many varied and wide-ranging influences into an astonishingly ace dreamy radio-made bop. An upbeat summery synth and bassContinue reading “Duke Keats – Heavy Heartbreak”

Real Farmer – Compare What’s There

We’ll admit our ignorance and state that before writing this review we admit to being ill informed of the Dutch music scene and couldn’t even place Groningen, Real Farmer’s home town, on the map. But since completing our homework our audio world has been brightened up due to Personal Trainer, The Klittens, Frontsector, Youth Deprivation,Continue reading “Real Farmer – Compare What’s There”

Death Of The High Street – Mental Wealth

The new one from Death Of The High Street sees the Midlands lads in sheer, seething, all-out rock mode with heavy punk riffs and an honest exposition of the wild intricacies involved in addressing your mental health. Beginning proceedings in the therapist’s office, a story unfolds of youthful bad decisions, unravelling sanity, toxic comparison andContinue reading “Death Of The High Street – Mental Wealth”

The Mysterines – Stray

Merseyside grunge-rockers The Mysterines are fresh off of touring with Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes and prepping for album number two, ‘Afraid Of Tomorrows’. To pave the way for a paranoid and brooding future, the four piece have come back with ‘Stray’, a creeping serenade to the dark shadowy recesses of the human psyche. LiaContinue reading “The Mysterines – Stray”

Hinds – Coffee

Riotous Madrid rock duo Hinds’ first single back after a four year spell, ‘Coffee’, sees the pair triumphantly casting off all shreds of shame and bellowing out a bunch of contentious things they adore, “Yeah I like black coffee and cigarettes/ And crying to hard rock on my holidays” whilst managing to include as wellContinue reading “Hinds – Coffee”

Kings of Leon – Mustang

To say ‘Mustang’ is a return to form for Kings of Leon would be a bit harsh. The Followill clan’s history is familiar to anyone with a vague interest in whatever could be termed alternative-rock – three stupendous albums, one mega single (‘Sex On Fire’ for the unaware) followed by a decade and a halfContinue reading “Kings of Leon – Mustang”

Silent Forum – Domestic Majestic

Modernity is an absurd thing. Whilst, within this post-covid landscape, human beings work isolated in their homes, all they really want is connection and to feel OK in ways that former generations were able to take for granted. On their second album ‘Domestic Majestic’, Silent Forum drill down deeper into this sentiment, taking in self-help,Continue reading “Silent Forum – Domestic Majestic”

Catfish and the Bottlemen – Showtime

The fate of Catfish and the Bottlemen has been clouded in mystery since the North Wales band appeared to implode at some point in 2020, with their considerable fanbase left crying into the void of conjecture, armed only with claims that their heroes are on hiatus. So it was with sheer relief that curious flyersContinue reading “Catfish and the Bottlemen – Showtime”

Sister Envy – Mourning Sickness

It’s an immense scene to capture, the early hours of dawn when a bright new morning is waking, a fresh world is outside the window, peeping in through a crack in the curtains, but either due to anxiety, drink, regret or the realisation that a monumental Saturday night has ended, the new day is struckContinue reading “Sister Envy – Mourning Sickness”

WRKHOUSE – Getaway

If you like a sure and certain ominous, dark groove with your course, fuzzy guitar and celestial synths, then WRKHOUSE are the lads you’ve been waiting ever patiently for. Their debut single ‘Getaway’ sees them bringing the aforementioned elements, topped off with a treacle-smooth, soulful melody, not unlike Manchester electronic-pop maestros Hurts with a grittier,Continue reading “WRKHOUSE – Getaway”