The National – First Two Pages of Frankenstein
4ADNinth outing from the Dads of sad.
Reviews
SENSES – Little Pictures Without Sound
42's RecordsArena-sized anthems from latest Coventry wonders.
Emperor Zero – Nights Of The Hunter EP
Ramber Records/Sways“Blossoming in adversity, beautiful melodies square off against the solemnity of the Old Testament, post-punk guitars soaring poetically from the noisy squalor”
Ballamona – Institutions EP
Ramber Records“Manchester-based neo-industrial band take perverse pleasure in exploiting uneasy spaces”
Carlton Melton – Resemble Ensemble
Agitated“a statement quite unlike anything the Northern Californian woodsmen have done before”
The C.I.A. – Surgery Channel
In The RedAn electro-punk “drive-it-like-you-stole-it, sparking-on-the-rims vehicle for reckless fun”
Skull Practitioners – Negative Stars
In The RedThe Dream Syndicate’s Jason Victor gets hot and heavy alongside this set of general practitioners.
Gunslingers – Supreme Asphalt Doser
Cardinal Fuzz/Opaque Dynamo/Feeding Tube“Not for the wary. Not really for the uninitiated. And certainly not for the fearful”
Pianos Become The Teeth – Drift
Epitaph Records….carries that sense of a half-forgotten dream, fading beyond our grasp.
The Haunted Youth – Dawn Of The Freak
Mayway Records.New Belgium sensations offer more than teen rebellion
