Ryan McMurtry – Thoughts Like Birds (EP Review)
From Belfast via Bristol, the whispery folk balladeering of Ryan McMurtry makes a light-hearted but lasting impression on his joyous new EP “Thoughts Like Birds”. Strings, brass, and backing vocals…
Compltr – You Won’t Get A Gold Medal (EP Review)
Embracing who we are in a world that rewards cookie-cutter copies of the herd is one of the significant challenges of adulthood. However, accepting and coming to love our shortcomings…
The Loud Bangs – Salvation Memorial Hospital (EP Review)
For a band that released 6 5-song EPs in 2022 (!!), Angeleno shoegaze outfit The Loud Bangs don’t sound spent on the finale Salvation Memorial Hospital. Shoegaze is the de…
Nadia Kamrath – Confessions (EP Review)
Being fragile in a world where stoicism is seen as the highest virtue is difficult. We are often forced to harden our soft inner nature to better fit society’s hard…
Dash Hammerstein – Time Travel – Hot Pretzel (EP Review)
Dash Hammerstein is an alternative folk singer from Brooklyn who upholds musical traditions while imbuing his songs with a modern perspective built around spiritual disenchantment and the absurd. His latest…
Fantømex – Terraformed (EP Review)
Elon Musk wants to terraform Mars. He says this is to ensure the future survival of humanity but is there a better example of a ‘God complex’? Being responsible for…
Rachel Sermanni – Every Swimming Pool Runs to the Sea (EP Review)
In 2015, professor Mark Hamilton from the University of Connecticut published a paper titled “Astrology as a culturally transmitted heuristic scheme for understanding seasonality effects: a response to Genovese (2014)”.…
Managers by Oblivz (EP Review)
Review by Liam Birch Oblivs are an indie-rock duo of Charlie Wilmoth and Andrew Slater, who also play in the band Fox Japan. The five songs across their latest EP…