This piece originally appeared in The Thin Air & Issue 10 of the magazine One word that is regularly attributed to bands that fall under the rock ’n’ roll, blues or garage-punk monikers is ‘raw’. By that I mean there is more often than not a pure and unadulterated rawness or dirtiness, as it were, related to…
A version of these two pieces originally appeared in Tonedeaf back in December. Twerps – Range Anxiety (Chapter Music) It was incredibly hard not to have felt more than just a little giddy following my first couple of listens to Twerps’ sophomore record Range Anxiety. Having taken quite awhile to warm to last year’s Underlay EP,…
This piece originally appeared in Issue 7 of The Thin Air Nearly four years have passed since Dublin six piece little xs for eyes, dropped their sun drenched debut S.A.D. upon unsuspecting listeners, so the question now is: whether the delay with this sophomore effort has been worth the wait? It’s with a sigh of relief that…
This review originally appeared on Tonedeaf.com.au Having released the rather well received Powernap cassette in 2013 and the even more impressive split 7” with Sydney’s Unity Floors last year, to say there is an air of anticipation surrounding the release of Melbourne’s Chook Race debut full length About Time, is something of an understatement. The guitar pop…
This review originally appeared on Tonedeaf.com.au Having already released three full length albums it seemed as though Pond were intent on being able to fly under the radar of the mid-noughtie’s psyche-rock resurgence. Things however took a not so unexpected lift-off for the Perth natives, following high praise both at home and abroad, for their 2012 release…
This review originally appeared on The Thin Air In this day and age a four year gap between album releases can be viewed as a lifetime for any young band; such is the way music is consumed, and more often than not, spat back out, they very same week. It’s just as easy for a…
This review originally appeared on Tonedeaf.com.au In this day and age it is near on impossible to escape the words; ‘pressure’, ‘anticipation’ and ‘second album syndrome’, when discussing the release of a band’s sophomore record. These words take on even more significance when said band’s debut release garnered worldwide acclaim, won the Mercury Music prize…
This review originally appeared on The Thin Air There must be a sense of relative trepidation whenever an underground band are thrown into the media spotlight from the depths of relative obscurity, and viewed by many a rock critic as the latest bearers of the indie rock torch. That sort of instant exposure was something…
Glass Boys is the fourth full length record from Toronto’s Fucked Up, and with it, the hardcore punk outfit have decided to take a more introspective view of their career and its subsequent success. Vocalist Damian Abraham growls and bellows his way throughout Glass Boys, however his abrasive approach to spitting out lyrics is at times downright…
If there was ever a way of attempting to cut loose from your former squeaky clean adolescent image and enter the realms of lustful adulthood, then former TV star Taylor Momsen – from Gossip Girl – has come out guns blazing. The intro to ’Follow Me Down’, whereby the listener is introduced to the sound of a…
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