by Tom Roden
Colloquial tongues and overdriven indie guitars make for a great track.
Categories: Listen, Review, Track Review • Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Between Brick Walls, Indie, Indie-Rock, Listen, Loose Buttons, Review, Rock, Single Review, Track Review
by Tom Roden
Desert-Rock has never sounded as seductive as Kobadelta’s new EP, ‘Remain Distracted’. It exists in a strange but impressive world between Queens Of The Stone Age and Arctic Monkeys, combining coolly-delivered vocals with searing guitars and brutal drumming. If Arctic Monkeys are “a heavy metal band disguised as an indie band“, then Kobadelta are definitely in the same boat. Opening track ‘Siam’ sets the scene well, beginning with a hypnotising guitar line that soon erupts into the volcanic mass of […]
Categories: EP Review, Review • Tags: Alternative, Arctic Monkeys, Desert-Rock, Indie, Kobadelta, Lars Ulrich, Metallica, Queens Of The Stone Age, Remain Distracted, Reptition, Rock, Siam, The Heretic, They Can't Hurt Me
by Tom Roden
Pin Tweaks are a mysterious new alt-pop band that very nearly passed us by entirely. We only caught wind of the band and their first released track ‘Girl On The Wire’ through their buddies Fé, and we’re infinitely grateful for that! ‘Girl On The Wire’ is the kind of seductive alt-pop that Arctic Monkeys brought to the forefront of mainstream with ‘AM’, but this is punctuated with psychedelic-tinged vocal repetitions instead of overdriven guitars. The guitars in this track add […]
Categories: Review, Track Review, Video • Tags: Alt-pop, Alternative, AM, Arctic Monkeys, Fé, Girl On The Wire, Pin Tweaks, Pop, Psychedelic, Shoegaze
by Tom Roden
Here’s a good one for all you indie-rock fans that miss the way Arctic Monkeys used to be before they Americanised themselves, or The Libertines back when Doherty was chasing the dragon instead of riding it. Dirty Little Lies are kings of the turn-of-the-century indie-rock sound, and their new video is out now. ‘Rise Before The Fall’ finds the band flexing their indie muscles, with a powerful track that feels like a tighter and more constrained Libertines but with room to […]
Categories: Video • Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Dirty Little Lies, Pete Doherty, Rise Before The Fall, The Libertines
by Tom Roden
Punchy punk rhythms on a hot overdriven guitar signal the start of something that you know right away is special. This is ‘Excuses’, the latest track from indie-punk outfit Lost In Space. And it’s pretty damn good. Aside from the crunchy guitars, there is plenty of other good things on offer here. Powerful drums and complimenting bass form a hard-hitting backdrop for an effortlessly cool vocal that hooks you in. It’s a bit like if Arctic Monkeys were a few shades […]
Categories: Review, Track Review • Tags: Alternative, Arctic Monkeys, Excuses, Indie, Lost In Space, Punk
by Tom Roden
Dear Lara is the stage name of Glaswegian folk troubadour David Lan, a name which may one day become a household name. With the release of new EP ‘Plans’, Lan shows a fantastic amount of potential. From the opening notes of first track, ‘Deadweight’ (which sounds like a melancholy reworking of Bright Eyes’ ‘First Day Of My Life’), you get chills and know this is something special. The beauty of ‘Deadweight’, and ‘Plans’ as a whole, is that it is a […]
Categories: EP Review, Review • Tags: Acoustic, Alex Turner, Arctic Monkeys, Bright Eyes, Deadweight, Dear Lara, First Day Of My Life, Folk, Glasgow, John Cooper Clarke, Plans EP, Rabbit Island
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