by Sean Passmore | Feb 4, 2017 | Album of the Week
A classic rock smorgasbord of prog influenced slickly produced hard edged modern pop with the bravado of Queen (It Comes As No Surprise) the anthemic radio friendly hooks of ’70’s era Journey and Boston (One Good Piece Of Me) the riff bashing swagger of...
by Sean Passmore | Jan 28, 2017 | Album of the Week
For those who dig hook-layered sweet ‘n’ edgy ragged guitar lines up front and centre in the mix of some well crafted melodic power pop Ty Segall salutes you. Channelling big phat chunky vintage Crazy Horse grooves in the opening track, appropriately...
by Sean Passmore | Jan 21, 2017 | Album of the Week
Over the course of three albums now Foxygen have managed to re-imagine themselves as three drastically different sounding acts, from the hurried psychedelia of 2013’s We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic to the bloated ’70’s glam...
by Sean Passmore | Jan 14, 2017 | Album of the Week
Jad Fair has been making his own unique brand of Half Japanese low-fi alternative art punk since as far back as 1975. The band has certainly come a long way from the days when it included brother David alternately helping out on a small drum kit, vocals and an...
by Sean Passmore | Jan 9, 2017 | Album of the Week
Norwegian garage rock straight outta Oslo (“our town, our rules, the smell of piss and power tools”) this record reeks with in-your-face street cred, integrity and raw power. No posing, posturing or pretty fake gloss here, nothing but high powered balls-to...
