Daydreaming, I stumble through the door onto the pavement after the gig, songs still whirling in my ears. I notice my whiskey bottle is nearly empty and I’ve got an overwhelming urge to vomit and roll around in it. Rock & roll. I’ve never seen SONNY live but I can imagine this might be how […]
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Along with being human beings, sometimes rapping on albums and at live shows, In Sanity have yet another string on their bow, kicking off dope ass cyphers. We should start off by explaining precisely what a cypher is, for the uninitiated. A cypher starts off as a beat, then it’s passed to someone to write and deliver the
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The album starts off fiercely, with a statement of intent and a middle finger to the established norm. A sample mocking the hypocritical fascination with independence in the mainstream, before leading into “Awkward Flow”, a track that exhibits precisely the level of intensity Eiren and Catharsis plan to come at you with on this. In the break,
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As rock guitar bands marched across the mainstream we received an influx of bands saturating the charts with the jangling deathknell of respectability for the medium. As we stand at the tail end of this trend, bands are emerging once more who champion all that once made this niche genre so appealing, Cheshire three piece
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The album begins. You first hear the lazy buzz of a faulty instrument cable somewhere in the mix. The band then drag themselves into what seems to be a rather flawed opening to an unknown track. Your first reaction is likely to be “Oh… oh god, the production on this is terribl-“ STOP. Give it until
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Mediocre At Best is the debut solo EP by singer song writer Kristian Lasham. A title which Lasham explains is a statement about today’s music and how ‘music doesn’t have to be perfect and polished or over produced’, which from the introduction alone you can clearly hear that this is reflected in his own work. There is
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