Album Review

I've spent most of two decades keeping diesels running on container ships and keeping temperamental propeller systems running in Force 9 gales, but now I'm landlocked running office administration in a logistics company, and it's slowly draining the life out of me. My office has a view over a car park. A car park. The only waves I get to look at are those people trade in for me down the corridor. The closest  I get to fluid tests is refilling the coffee pot, and the most exci

RELEASE DATE - NOV 28TH There's something ironically twisted about a band called Tickles  releasing music that would be like waterboarding with broken glass and birthday cake frosting. The Dordogne-born Nantes quartet of noise Machine-punk have devoted the lion's share of seven years to an observed approach of controlled chaos—two EPs into a career based on making Idles sound so elevator-music-esque—and now they've put out Sugar & Plastic Plates , a first full-length that's e

Released - Nov 14th Live records come in two different classes: the slick, ProTools-fondled untruths where every note lands like a gymnast with a good lawyer… and then whatever Live At Stonedead is pretending to be. It's like The Dead Daisies duct-taped a microphone onto a Harley's exhaust,  fired it up in a room with acoustics of a storage unit, and invited two thousand people who definitely skipped leg day to call it "spiritually fulfilling." The band refers to this as "Raw

Creed: Live In San Antonio (Black Friday RSD release) is the kind of artifact you fish out of a bargain bin and buy "ironically," only to find-mid-listen, mid-smirk-your foot tapping, your soul accidentally stirring. Those bins always smell faintly of melted plastic and somebody's regrets. This record comes 25 years overdue to its own intervention-or whatever the vinyl equivalent is. An exorcism? A stern talking-to? I don't know. Recorded November 14, 1999: Creed at the Freem

At last, the Gods of Rock ‘n’ Roll have heard our prayers. Instead of silencing us, they’ve given us the much overlooked Forevermore by Whitesnake in a box so lavish it could hold the Ark of the Covenant. It includes four CDs, a Blu-ray, a hefty 60-page booklet with Coverdale sharing sweet thoughts from the page, plus a tour book and a poster large enoughto hide your ex’s memory. Unlike Metallica, who will sell you a box of beer mats and call it deluxe. Back in 2011 critics s

Bittersweet, the brand new Cassidy Paris CD came through my letter box on Tuesday. Nothing ever happens on a Tuesday, so it was somewhat of a surprise. The press release reads  like a hostage note from someone who genuinely has Stockholm syndrome: "Stepping confidently into her own identity as an artist." That phrase. That's the one that has you reaching for a shot before hitting the play button, because you know exactly what's going to follow: another beautifully executed mu

Release: 7 November 2025 - Self Release I want to be excited about Luna Marble. I do, truly. They're a Manchester rock band who worked for five years between lockdowns, lineup changes, and the constant 2020s touring band farce of existing forever, to be left with a self-titled debut that's like your dad's record collection got tired, woke up, and created a Tinder profile. "Vintage grunge meets extraterrestrial sound design."  This album is like a séance that involuntarily bro

Häxan, the all-female rock trio hailing from the grit and glamour of the city, are back with a vengeance and ready to shred eardrums with...

From the misty glens and windswept shores of a forgotten realm emerges “ Eluveitie ,” a Folk, Celtic death metal band whose music is as...

The earth trembled with the release of ‘March of the Gods’ which is the latest offering from veteran heavy rock outfit King Kraken....

Kickin Valentina is back with an explosive new album ‘Raw Trax, B-Sides and Bootlegs, signed to German label Mighty Music. The raw...

The Wildhearts have just signed a worldwide deal with Snakefarm/Integral, and Jim Pinder has produced the album (Bring Me The Horizon,...