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Ready to Die isn't the missing sequel to Raw Power, but it is a masterclass in writing a big, dumb punk album with occasional touches of emotional depth. »
Dethscalator's descent into deconstructed noise is too quick, too eager.»
Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo is Hey Colossus taking their past, screwing up the rule book and cackling like lunatics. »
Oddfellows clearly signals a return to the style and spirit of Tomahawk's self-titled debut, and to some extent the highlights of Faith No More's latter days. It strikes the prefect balance: accessible, yet with enough idiosyncrasy to make it more than just a formulaic retread of past glories. »
In lieu of new Fugazi material, this is certainly a more-than-adequate substitute.»
Lost Songs is like watching a well-crafted action film: you might know what's coming but you still marvel at the stunts, admire the panache with which it carries itself, and enjoy it for the passion that carries every scene.»
This album is crammed full of influences, and wears them proudly on its rolled-up suit jacket sleeve.»
The Fatal Erection Years is a fascinating retrospective into the development of a hugely influential band's sound. Over and above that, it's a clean and pure blast of hardcore punk that sounds like it could have been written yesterday.»
I have heard the future of punk, and it is Belgian.»
This album is a statement, a signoff with intent. »
This is a misanthropic, outraged and often hilarious skewering of the early twenty-first century and its fascinations... The Mclusky/Future of the Left box of musical tricks is liberally mined here, though. You won't be disappointed if you're looking for ADHD punk in the style of 'Lightsaber Cocksucking Blues' ('Sheena is a T-Shirt Salesman') fun and games with keyboards ('Cosmo's Ladder' and 'A Guide to Men')... Thank you, Future of the Left – you've saved rock music. Now to make it pay.»
Don't expect vast departures from the formula on Valentina; The Wedding Present know their niche. But how superbly they fill it.»
This is a massive, sprawling piece of work - and that's its blessing and its curse. »
January in Britain. Short days, no money, cold nights, and it's inevitably when the hyper-advanced combination boiler packs in, leaving you with no heating for a week while the engineer waits for an unspecified 'part'. January sucks. Not in Australia, »
Voir Dire might not be the masterwork that El Diablo was but it certainly comes a close second. Welcome back, Will Haven.»
This album is ferocious, funny, colossal, guttural, hopeful and terrifying. »
There are many awesome things about Sydney: The Harbour Bridge. The Opera House. The beaches. One lesser-known treasure of the city, however, is local indies radio station FBi Radio. Resoundingly independent, its centrepiece event is Changing Lanes: an allday event featuring more than 50 bands and DJs over 10 hours. IN its second year, the festival takes place on Saturday September 17th, in partnership with one of Sydney's best known venues, the Gaelic - and it features some of the most exciting bands from Sydney and elsewhere in Australia at the moment. Here's my pick of the bunch. »
It doesn't capture that molten energy that the Icarus Line have been capable of in the past.»
Kev Eddy moved to Australia a year ago to discover a land that, surprisingly, isn't all AC/DC cover bands and Jet. Here's the first in a series of columns investigating the Australian music scene. Ah, festival season. Nothing quite brings home a sense »
O’Death’s most accomplished work to date, and a fine piece of work at that.»
Sure, there are some bum notes, but it's music with passion. It makes you want to DO something, and that is what a real protest album is really about. »
More of the same, albeit slicker.»
This is a band completely at peace with who they are and where they're at musically – which is a rare thing.»
This is ultimately a pretty promising debut – especially if you hanker for the grungy days of the Nineties. »
Thomas Truax is a unique performer, and already justly appreciated as a treasure live. Sonic Dreamer may just have the wit, invention and accessibility to be the album that garners him that same recognition as a recording artist. »
Wembley is without a doubt an intimidating place, and it takes a lot for a band to hold it in the palm of their hand. Bigger acts than Flight of the Conchords have come here and done worse - even so, the New Zealand twosome don't make this the triumph it should be, despite their best efforts.»
If Cancer Bats could do this good a job with 'Sabotage', what else might they be itching to rework in their own furious style? Singer Liam Cormier sets out his top, er, eight...»
While blisteringly-paced industrial-tinged hardcore forms the basis for the seven tracks on Dead Dead Fucking Dead, Wounds liberally steal from the heavier end of the spectrum, notably math-metal and grindcore. »
Perhaps the Method Actors should have been as big as their contemporaries or followers: perhaps not. Perhaps they're better this way, as a hidden gem to be stumbled across or searched out.»
Ah. Metal. So much hair, sweat and tattoos. Now DiS loves a bit of fury-filled metalcore noisemongering from time to time, so we do. Problem is, see, that it's a bloody nightmare sorting the wheat from the chaff. One minute you could be listening to a master of the genre, and before you know it you're trying to find artistic merit in the music made by a bunch of illiterate teenagers from Hyuck, Dakota or a Scandinavian man pretending to be a troll.»
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