Flying in the face of tradition, Everyone Everywhere’s self titled debut opens with a big Fuck You to current indie rock by daring to crack out a wah pedal and actually put it to good use in Tiny Planet, allaying fears that the band had taken on the spirit of the (thankfully) long dead Kula [...]

“The Last Place You’ll Look” finds We Were Promised Jetpacks taking a much more evolved form than that of their debut effort “These Four Walls”, in the sense that most of the conventional dynamics that the band employed have been ditched in favour of a darker, more brooding tone. Of the 5 tracks on “The [...]

It doesn’t take long to realise what kind of album “The Upsides” is going to be, it even opens with a cliché that’s far too overused in the genre, a softly sung intro accompanied by gentle picking that eventually swells into the blazing drums and guitar. Unfortunately “The Upsides” is ridden with these clichés. Gang [...]

The 12 songs contained within “Goodbye God” are somewhat of a musical journey through the genre that is pop and it’s sub genres, each track on the album is in someway different from the last yet still poppy as hell. Sebastian’s ability to take each genre and put a pop spin on each whilst still [...]

The past few years have been brilliant for indie rock both old and new. We’ve seen bands like Dinosaur Jr make an unexpected return with two solid post reunion albums, Superchunk drop an ep & 7″ out of the blue and even the reformation of Pavement. As for new bands, there’s a current slew of [...]

For most bands you will find that it’s the “difficult 2nd album” that proves the most troublesome part of their career, however in Frightened Rabbit’s case it seems to be the third. 2006′s debut “Sings the Greys” secured the band a valuable place in the Indie Rock food chain gaining critical press from most sources, [...]

First things first, I have to admit that I’ve never been a massive fan of screamo from the start, which is why I was quite pleasantly surprised by Pianos Become The Teeth’s debut full length “Old Pride”. “Old Pride” is a ferocious album right from the start despite the intro of “Filial” misleading the listener [...]

For me, “Post Rock” is something I lost interest in shortly after the release of “The Earth Is A Cold Dead Place” by Explosions In The Sky. This is mainly down to the fact that the aforementioned album seemed to have caused a shit storm of copycat bands that diluted the sub genre to the [...]

And so, just like that Small Brown Bike drop a new 7″ on us. I can’t believe that the band have been inactive since the release of 2003′s “The River Bed”. Of the two tracks on the 7″, “When We Run” is the track that will sound familiar to most people. You can immediately tell [...]

Late 2009 saw the (rather low key) release of Tuber’s 3rd album “Anachronous”, the follow up to 2007′s “Shell Out”, an album I only recently discovered but thoroughly enjoyed none the less. Kicking off with the minute and a half burst of “High Tide It’s Inside”, it’s clear that “Anachronous” is the band at their [...]