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Back in the days before downloads it was fairly common for a band to release two version of a single – one with b-sides and one with remixes, something that Gunning for Tamar have pulled together in this six-track release [...]

Having a bad day? Turn off the lights, sit down in your comfy chair, put ‘Let it Go’ on repeat, close your eyes and drift away to a better place. Fossil Collective will guide you there. Hailing from Leeds, England, [...]

Silver/Back/Club, are a bass-guitar-drums-synth playing quartet from Deeside, Wales bustling out with their cracking debut 3-track EP. The band featured on the BBC’s Adam Walton’s playlist as he covered the Focus Wales festival in April this year where the band [...]

Launching their debut EP in May 2012 is PAWs, a Glasgow based trio who combined to produce “energy fuelled, Violent Femme-esque, anti-folk sounding music” so they say…and I’d agree with them. Definitely not folky and definitely with a Glasgow sound, [...]

There is something to be said about listening to loud music; just letting the noise wash over you and consume your senses. A strange thing begins to happen, your body begins beating in rhythm with the music. This is one [...]

For a band with a relatively long name, Retribution Gospel Choir play short songs. So short in fact, that this EP clocks in at under 12 minutes. For fans of Low who have picked RGC up due to the fact [...]

Just as ‘Calaveras’ release from last year was my early Christmas present, so happy I was to hear I get to get another one from the same band this year! ‘Christmas 86’ (nomen omen) is a 5 track EP from [...]

Who would have thought you could do so much in four short songs. Each so unique, so full of personality, yet coming together in a neat bundle. Post-metal really is peaking right now and Pelican claims its share of the [...]

When Sufjan Stevens unleashed the neon-bright, widescreen extravaganza of his ‘The Age of Adz’ live show on UK audiences just under a year ago, mine was one of many voices proclaiming it probably the best gig they’d ever witnessed. To [...]

Popping up from the Manchurian music scene is The Punch House, a duo from ‘the Reddish/Gorton Badlands’. Well, all I can say that it can’t be all bad with multi-instrumentalists Phil and Tom giving us their first offering for the [...]

Yorkshire-based artists come together for this split EP comprising three original songs bolstered by a couple of reissues. Broadly folk in flavour, it flutters a little uncertainly between the tumbleweed gravel-tones of Plock and the breezy picnic delivery of Stephenson, [...]

There’s something indescribably kinky going down on the cover of Kins’ debut, and given the title’s reference to whipped cream, it’s fair to assume that there may be something deviant on the groove here. Either that, or American college rock. [...]

Working on your own to create and perform music gives you a huge level of freedom. The freedom you get when shackled to a post. There’s no one to get in your way or to help stop you making a [...]

Kellar love to experiment with sounds, and to share the results of those experiments. Having made plenty of loud guitar- and drum-based noise on debut “Beloved Dean of Magic”, Kellar return with a shift in sound on “Smokescreen” that is [...]

Well, this takes me back. That’s not to say that A Fight You Can’t Win sound like The Victims, Zippy and the Coneheads or The Trilobites, except the songs are short, sharp and you have no choice but to bounce [...]

I am sort of late to the party that is ‘On VHS’ by The Fierce And The Dead, or at least late in writing about this instrumental gem. I have been unable to write about music recently, even when the [...]

Sometimes, it matters not whether it’s been done before, just that it can be done again and done better. Indie-rock bands are ten-a-penny these days: some an unfortunate by-product of the ‘landfill indie’ movement that heralded the supposed ‘death of [...]

In the same way that radio stations and music zines had trouble coming up with a genre and a name to describe early 65 Days of Static, Flicker State manufacture sounds that they like, no matter their origin, and bring [...]

When offered the choice of which new release I wanted to review this week I asked the editors at Echoes and Dust to surprise me. I can say that after listening to Blue Sky Archives I was more than surprised. [...]

I’ve heard a lot of good remixes over time, but most are throwaway tracks bunched together on a single or posted on Soundcloud and Bandcamp. In contrast, the way the latest EP from Flies Are Spies From Hell combines a [...]

Short, brash and noisy. That’s how you describe this EP, and given how Holy have managed to shoehorn 8 tracks into 12 minutes, it seems fitting to not spend too much time dissecting it. Classic, shouty hardcore punk, giving a [...]