Tuesday, 8 April 2014

The Amazing Snakeheads - Here It Comes Again

A bad trip powered by knuckleduster hands and 800 brake horsepower bass.
The Glaswegian scuzz-rock shamans deliver on their promises on debut album 'Amphetamine Ballads'.

More quality from the pedigree stables of the eminent Domino records.
Single and debut album out 14 April 2014. Performing in a venue near you April and May.

Monday, 7 April 2014

10Tigers - Owned

The drums push the vox along. The guitar chases the bass. A band in motion clamouring for air.
It is lo-fi in its literal sense but that seems deliberate and increases the immediacy.
There's a song and a message right here too. The rests in the vocal line letting the music

Saturday, 5 April 2014

Waste - Blow

Exactly three minutes of exacting balls-out rock, sounding more Rancho De La Luna than Stevenage.

Waste sound like a gang. Phased, grunge guitar from Max and Josh's pile-driver bass coolly hang back as Jak Melvin's tale of lust swaggers off after that girl towards the door.

These guys have studied their genre hard,

Thursday, 3 April 2014

The Derevolutions - Now You Know My Name

Tick-tock, head-tock, clockwork pop ridden by a cutesy-pie indie chanteuse.
Brass and whistling tends not to enamour the indie-crowd but this technicolour, dancefloor filler will undoubtedly bring them

Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Billionaire - Tammy Paints Pictures/Trustees

Billionaire is the creation of London Whitechapel's John Sterry. The very English observations "condemning the idolisation of the rich and famous" sit comfortably over some quite gentlemanly, minimal accompaniment.

You may have heard Sterry before, fronting indie-popsters Gaoler's Daughter. Now on his own, he says he imposed "strict limitations" on himself, restricting the sound he could create. 'Tammy...' with the

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Marmozets - Why Do You Hate Me?

Sinew-tearing, visceral and confrontational but this isn't another teen-punk sensation.
Two sets of siblings (3 x MacIntyres and 2 x Bottomleys) have been recording and playing live as Marmozets since 2011 and this single really cuts through.
With howl-growling lyrical insight, an all-knowing guitar complement, stop-start time changes and a hard-ass work ethic,