punk/post-punk albums
EP Review: Television Supervision – Mavericks
Orlando punk rockers Television Supervision have just released their brand new E.P ‘Mavericks’.The E.P encapsulates high energy, raw and punk-rock attitudes and an ever growing ambition from theOrlando 4-piece. From the empowering and adrenaline driven ‘Racing to You’ to the atmospheric andheartfelt ‘Cloud’. ‘Mavericks’ displays a band who are fully capable of reigniting the pop-punk …
Album Review: The City Kids – Filth
To say that The City Kids have had a good couple of years is taking understatement to the very extreme; their first album – a lock-down project recorded before half the band had even been in a room together, and certainly before a gig had been played – was something pretty special, followed up for …
EP Review: Jaws Of Life – Jaws Of Life Mini Mix Tape
Comprised of Mitch Bock (guitar & vocals), Rhys Anderson (guitar), Steve French (bass & backing vocals), and Tim Tittley (drums), South Wales pop punk foursome Jaws Of Life, have gathered together three tracks for their debut EP, Jaws Of Life Mini Mix Tape. Three tracks that are set to showcase their bright and intelligent music. The band remark about the creation of the EP: “Over lockdown, …
Album Review: Bad Breeding – Human Capital
Stevenage anarcho-punk quartet’s fourth album is their best yet.
EP Review: The C33s ‘Benzodiac’ 4th March
The C33’s new EP ‘Benzodiac’ was brought to life during the summer of 2020, in between national lockdowns. The band would like to dedicate this EP to Rhoda Derry. Her suffering brought monumental change to national practices of supporting the mentally ill. With an introduction from Salford born actor Steve Evets the album opens with …
Album Review: Silverbacks – Archive Material
Every so often a country, city or a scene throws up a couple of acts, that has the A&R men scrambling for their company credit cards, an A-Z (usually a motoring atlas that features places outside of London) and a glint in their eye. In the past it’s been Wales, Seattle, New York, Glasgow, Bristol, …
Album Review: Lily Konigsberg – Lily We Need To Talk Now
Brooklyn-based artist, Lily Konigsberg from the band Palberta has released her debut album, Lily We Need To Talk Now via Wharf Cat Records. The eleven-track collection is her first proper full length, following her anthology of EPs and unreleased tracks, The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now, released this year. The childlike opening of ‘Beauty’ with its simply piano melodies that appear chunky at …
Album Review: Chubby and the Gang’s ‘The Mutt’s Nuts’ is the dog’s……
It is an unfortunate fact that the kind of music that Chubby and the Gang makes has never been ‘major label’ fodder, at least not in recent times. This is true for the band members themselves, who had previously cut their teeth as part of the London hardcore scene. Take the lead for example: Charlie, …
Album Review – Ferocious Dog – The Hope
The mighty folk punk band Ferocious Dog have released their new album ‘The Hope’ via Graphite Records. An album which is full of their unique Celtic brand of folk punk with heartfelt melodies and intelligent songs. Regarding the album Ken Bonsall comments: ‘I’d say that Ferocious Dog are a different animal on the recording of the Hope album. I …
EP Review: Desperate Measures – Rinsed
Desperate Measures formed in Christchurch, New Zealand, way back in 1981, a bundle of angry, aggressive polemic, pissed off with politicians, fake news, and the unfairness of fucked-up society. Not much has changed, then, in the forty years since – apart from geography, the internet, and the odd line-up change along the way. With original …