The Gulps have been touted for a while now as the most exciting new punk band about, making a severe mark on the London music circuit since the lifting of lockdown restrictions. But until now, unless you were lucky enough to find yourself in the audience at one of their reportedly riotous shows, we’ve onlyContinue reading “The Gulps – Stuck In The City”
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Beija Flo – Heads or Tails
‘Heads or Tails’ is a 1 minute 35 second new wave tornado that packs in social commentary and performer Beija Flo’s dismay at the fate of her hometown, Harlow in Essex. A speedy, vivacious, experimental jam backed with samples of Beija’s mates chatting and kicking off. You actually feel like you’re spending a night inContinue reading “Beija Flo – Heads or Tails”
Chubby and The Gang – The Mutt’s Nuts
West London hardcore five piece Chubby and The Gang have quite rightly noted that the UK (potentially the world) is in a state. Thankfully, with Fucked Up’s Jonah Falco in the producer’s chair, Charlie ‘Chubby’ Manning-Walker and his troop have the anger, nous and know-how to express exactly how much of a state. The Mutt’sContinue reading “Chubby and The Gang – The Mutt’s Nuts”
Mollie Coddled – Lonely Bitch
‘Lonely Bitch’ is a dream-pop lullaby of self-preservation to the point of sweet, sugary self-sabotage. Layered with drum machine, synthesiser and 20 year old Mollie Coddled’s summery voice, the singer lets us in on befuddling, anxiety-inducing events with a prospective partner that left her preferring to stay at home with “no fucking friends to call”.Continue reading “Mollie Coddled – Lonely Bitch”
Proletariat – Don’t Turn Out The Lights
Right off the starting block ‘Don’t Turn Out The Lights’ launches into a riff out of The Stooges toolbox and when James Cummins vocals kick in like a Lee Mavers for the 2020s you know you’re in for a bloody big treat. Nestled in the heart of the track is a brilliantly overwhelming sense ofContinue reading “Proletariat – Don’t Turn Out The Lights”
Pineto Cats – The ‘A Line To Separate’ Interview
“We never knew when we started rehearsing the song that it would turn into a twenty month jam.” Way back when, in the early days of Edge of Arcady, we received a message from Irish indie group Pineto Cats, pointing us in the direction of their seven minute epic video A Line To Separate. WithContinue reading “Pineto Cats – The ‘A Line To Separate’ Interview”
Dead Freights – Bat Man
Recorded raw and live in front of an audience at the Albion Rooms studio, Bat Man is a series of short sharp punk rock jabs. If no-one informed you otherwise, you’d be forgiven for thinking you were listening to Queens Of The Stone Age covering an outcut from The Clash’s debut LP. Introduced by frontmanContinue reading “Dead Freights – Bat Man”
Gang Of Youths – The Man Himself
Gang of Youths have this knack, where their songs sound a bit like Bruce Springsteen, but they get you right in the heart in a way The Boss won’t do. ‘The Man Himself’ follows in the same finely crafted tradition. Still present are the Australian five piece’s trademark violins, piano and stadium guitar over aContinue reading “Gang Of Youths – The Man Himself”
April – Piece of Me
Ireland’s April Lawlor has put out two fantastically sultry electro-indie EPs to date, namely 2020s New Conditions and Luna. Piece of Me is release number three, produced by Low Spirits/Spector’s Fred Macpherson, co-written with Sea Girls’ Frank Colluci, and with it the stakes get raised yet again. Firmly aimed at the mainstream, the record isContinue reading “April – Piece of Me”
Kaputt – Movement Now
Kaputt are six Glaswegian art punks and their latest single ‘Movement Now’ is a post-Brexit DIY critique on the UK’s immigration policy, advocating more freedom of movement as opposed to the gammon-consensus demand for immigration limits. Starting as a doomy rumination over chirping drone guitar from lead singer Cal Donnelly, in his almost gothic drawl,Continue reading “Kaputt – Movement Now”
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