Album: The Mad Mile – Legroom
Legroom is crammed full of chugging riffs and elegant motifs, with more light and shade than a Renaissance painting.
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Album: Olive Jones – For Mary
Olive blends her soul, jazz and blues influences to create an album that is destined to become a modern classic.
Album: Sleeps While Walking – Sleeps II
The staples are still there, the lamenting vocals, the solemn yet heavy guitar, the overall washed-out sound, but there is something more mature about this record. It isn’t just sad for the sake of being sad; it tackles the emotion with purpose and refuses to give in or let go.
Album: Karter AKA – Dangerous Creatures
This is an album that will sink its teeth in and not let go.
Album: Silver Heir – Hindenburg Variations
Borne from multiple once-in-a-lifetime crises, Silver Heir’s debut record finally sees the light after eighteen years in the making
Album: The Del-Viles – It’s Just A Kiss-Off
Our favourite thing we’ve heard so far this year, and we’re sure it’ll take some beating.
Album: The Iddy Biddies – The World Inside
Full of emotion, conviction, and consideration, all delivered with an enchanting and engaging musicality.
Album: Murkage Dave – Brut Thoughts
On his third album, Dave spills his soul into 36 minutes of introspective commentary and music difficult to pigeonhole.
Album: Mega Infinity – Harmonic Convergence
As the album closes and I play it over and over, I realize you’re not supposed to listen to it. Not with your ears. This album is an odyssey that you are supposed to feel.
Album: Various Artists – Minute Tango
A unique album made up of songs all around a minute in length, fitting on a 7″ single.
Album: Daily Worker – Prefab Maverick
With more hooks than a fisherman’s tackle box, Prefab Maverick is an earworm factory.
Album: Bobby Edge – Dirt Handsome vol. 1
In the 2023rd year of our lord, born of New York (possibly, or maybe he
Album: Sorry Sweetheart – Warm Room, Good Friends
It’s already been a great start to the year for ska-core, and Sorry Sweetheart, from Denver, Colorado (where the water boils faster) has launched that start into the stratosphere.
Album: ka lok – Opium Boy
A triumphant debut which delivers an epic, cinematic sci-fi odyssey full of heart and soul.
Album: Star Card – Trash World
Star Card climbs out from the depths of detritus on their grunge-tinged new album
Album: Sun Hat – Pet Shapes
Pet Shapes will make you want to gather it up in your arms and take it home with you!
Album: Hans Gruber and the Die Hards – Or Hans Gruber and the Die Hards
This is the best that Hans Gruber and the Die Hards have put out so far, which is a pretty impressive feat.
Album: Happy Kitty House – My First Rodeo
A whimsical indie debut with a sound that traverses the time-space continuum.