Tag: Alternative rock

ALBUM: Cellar Doors ‘Cellar Doors’

If we’re to accept that we live in transitional times and that political shifts have, for a long while, starved the arts of much-needed funding, then this eponymously-named debut musical statement from Cellar Doors arrives just in time. Having performed…

NEW TRACK: Tired Lion – ‘Fresh’

Taken from their upcoming album Dumb Days, ‘Fresh’ is the brand new single from Australian four-piece Tired Lion. It follows on from previous singles ‘Agoraphobia’, ‘I Don’t Think You Like Me’ and ‘Cinderella Dracula’, and it’s equal parts sensitive and aggressive –…

ALBUM: Temples – ‘Volcano’

The androgyny of Bolan is there, the otherworldly, wan countenances too, gazes seeking distant horizons and the answers to questions long ago asked by hipless, hapless pop stars, but this record is no retread of the musical past.

EP: FADES ‘Breaking Through The Walls’

Rating: The new FADES EP opens promisingly with ‘Breaking Through The Walls’ and ‘I’ve Been Away Too Long’. A weighty and slick production houses strong riffing that sways between classic and modern. FADES strength lies in their music; muscular and…

ALBUM: Broken Hands ‘Turbulence’

Turbulence is the debut album from Canterbury 5-piece Broken Hands. Together, Dale Norton, Jamie Darby, Thomas Ford, Callum Norton, and David Hardstone create rock music with space and psychedelic infusions. The band are growing in popularity thanks to their atmospheric,…

EP: My Cruel Goro ‘My Cruel Goro’

Rating: My Cruel Goro‘s eponymous debut EP is bursting with noisy, riff-laden, alternative-rock tracks that will make even the most reluctant fan start throwing themselves around like an angst-ridden teenager. The band hail from both Iceland and Italy, and formed…