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Album review: If This Is What Essex Sounds Like, Turn It Up! Rat Boy’s new release ‘CRASH!’

By Richie Viral
There are records that arrive politely. This is not one of them. 'CRASH!', the new album by Essex genre-bending indie Punks Rat Boy, does as the title suggests - crashes through the door and launches into full attack from the first buzzsaw chord. If The Clash had grown up on Essex housing estates, swapped reggae singles for skate videos, and discovered hip-hop before they Continue Reading
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Album review: The Dead Krazukies release 4th LP – ‘CIPHER’

By Phil Withall
Hailing from the southwestern French town of Hossegor, The Dead Krazukies are a band often described as being a skate punk outfit - a lazy catch-all that doesn’t really cover the variety in their music - and with the release of their fourth album, ‘CIPHER’, prove this perfectly. This is an album of contrast, of reflection and heritage. Of both the music that influenced The Continue Reading
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Album Review: Dead Strong release ‘147 Days’ musical diary

By Sonny Tyler
Straight out of Austin, Texas, this one man project Dead Strong commentates on the current US political climate... It is indeed melodic punk with a metal edge, and the production values have created an impressive, beefy sound. The musicianship is top-notch but at the end of the day, the lyrics are the star of the show for me. The words very effectively document a difficult Continue Reading
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Album review: Could this be the final chapter for CJ Wildheart, with ‘Devil’?

By Ian Ladlow
The ever-prolific CJ Wildheart is back with ‘Devil’, his eighth solo album. “I’ll be honest, I really struggled with this one, not so much writing it, but trying to find the drive," CJ explains. "Each year it gets harder to survive as an independent artist, and I always put in 100 percent into everything I do and this time round I came so close to just stopping." CJ Continue Reading
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Album Review: Triple Lutz Unleash Explosive Debut ‘In the Hands of an Angry Mob’

By Harriet Static
After a nine-year wait, it’s finally time to get excited about Triple Lutz’s debut album. Dropping on 26th June, ‘In the Hands of an Angry Mob’, is coming in hot. Nothing is off limits: from internet rage and public shaming to societal injustices and even religion. For a band driven by race-against-the-world urgency, they pack a lot into the twenty-minute run time - Continue Reading
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Album Review: Gloria Mundi revisit unique landmark debut ‘I-Individual’ in timely re-release

By Sonny Tyler
This great 'lost' band had a relatively short existence (1976-79), but the mark they left on the music scene at the time was unquestionable. Gloria Mundi have had an influence upon the alternative music scene ever since. Their landmark debut album 'I-Individual' has now been remastered via Antenna Records, and deserves your attention as a snapshot of a time when art Continue Reading