New Music

What would an extra-terrestrial visitor to our strange world make of the bizarre and boozed up environ of the fabled smoking area? A question not many of us dare not to ask but one Operation Ivan has dived into with great skill and due diligence. This post-punk passion project seeks to document the stranger side […]

Participation Mystique is an album that beckons the listener in with a smouldering subtlety that then gives way to the immersive and heady haze of a full blown inferno. It is at first listen delightfully slow and sombre but as it builds it reveals the powerful beast that lurks beneath the surface. The first track

We had fallen out of love with pop punk. As a music blog it can become numbing to hear the same Blink 182-lite tracks repackaged, repurposed, and regurgitated over and over again. Then Meet Me @ The Altar popped up in our inbox! It’s fresh, it’s energetic, it’s passionate, and powerful and it’s utterly intoxicating

Is there such a thing as the perfect riff? A transcendent resonance that vibrates with the exact pitch and frequency of your heartbeat or your soul? If there is, for me, this might be it. From the very first pick I was enchanted, this chipper little ripper skips merrily through the middle of the track,

Crashing in with ferocious riffs and thunderous drums, the Femegades back up their bark with toothy lyrics and vocals that leave a flesh wound from a vicious bite. It isn’t feral aggression though, their righteous ire is levelled with passion and power at the broken systems and violent masculinity hanging limp dicked and impotent from

Stomping in with a staggering swaggering wonky little guitar riff, Logistical Nightmare has a slightly off-kilter edge that marries beautifully with the lyrical content and poetic post-punk delivery. The guitars rock through blistering flourishes that slip and slide into place creating a jagged and mountainous soundscape that towers over the listener creating a picture perfect