The best new acts of Y Not 2016
by Tom Roden
The best emerging artists that killed it at Y Not festival 2016.
Categories: Introducing, Lists, Live Review • Tags: Coasts, Kagoule, The Assist, Tin Pigeons, White, Y Not 2016, Y Not Festival
Tag: Coasts
Coasts – ‘A Rush Of Blood’ Review
by Tom Roden
It’s a massive risk for a band, at any stage, to have a sudden change in musical direction. It can alienate and devastate fans and cause momentum to die. This is about 10x worse for bands that are gradually establishing themselves and coming through, being a bit like career suicide. Given that the last I heard of Coasts was ‘Oceans’, ‘A Rush Of Blood’ comes as a huge change of pace. A lot more soft-alternative than their former self-defined ’emo’ […]
Categories: Review, Track Review • Tags: A Rush Of Blood, Coasts, Oceans, Zane Lowe
Bohica – ‘Dry’ Review
by Tom Roden
Cue the alarm bells. Bohica are a band that describe themselves as ’emo’. As we’ve said before, we’re immediately skeptical of bands that apply such a tag to themselves – not least because even superstars of the emo movement (ah, the good(?) old days of last decade where angst was in and rumours of wrist-slitting apocalypse worshippers were all the rage) didn’t brand themselves as such. And, as with Coasts, we sit here chomping down on our own feet as […]
Categories: Review, Track Review • Tags: Bohica, Coasts, Demo, Dry, Emo, Grunge, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Post-Punk, Shoegaze
Coasts – ‘Oceans’ Review
by Tom Roden
Nothing riles me up like reading a band describe themselves as ’emo’. For me, ’emo’ is a branding given by closeminded music critics in the mid-noughties to post-punk/softcore-hardcore bands that were slightly too punk to be pop-punk. So when I see a band describe themselves as ’emo’, I see red. I gave Coasts a chance in spite of this, with their track ‘Oceans’. And I was so pleasantly surprised that I became annoyed at myself for jumping to conclusions. ‘Oceans’ is […]
Categories: Review, Track Review, Video • Tags: Coasts, Emo, Indie, Indie-Rock, Oceans, Post-Punk, Twin Atlantic, You Me At Six, Youmeatsix
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