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“Amends have a new album out later in the year, and when new material sneaks into the set, you can hear the difference. Tonight we get just one, right at the end, but it comes with a subtle gear change up into higher revs, and the band are visibly more turbo-charged. Don’t get me wrong, […]
“There’s always so much going on in a Sweetie set, it’s hard to keep pace. The songwriting is so sharp and densely packed with detail it’s easy to miss that it’s also built to bamboozle you with joy and dancing at the same time. It’s a lot to process. The lungs are left empty and […]
“Cammy Cautious & The Wrestlers’ set rips and tears and saws its way through a bazillion songs in short order, each a jagged little gem of ragged noise and frenzy. Enough to lose yourself in, enough to not notice the blood being drawn.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Misso drive and thud like a fist pounding on a table, relentless and rattling the glassware. The banging and clattering is matched by a super-charged sense of joy in the playing though, and it adds dangerous voltage, crackle and spit added to rumble and thump.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“The Riot’s ‘Happy Tears’ EP collects the full scope of the project, the oxymoron of the title reflecting its extensive spectrum. Its twists and turns through hip-hop, EDM, punk, and avant-garde noise experiment, it’s by turns beautiful, bruising, and bonkers. One of the more interesting, danceable, challenging, just plain raw acts of recent years 🔥”
“Like a reward for patience and good behaviour, we finally – FINALLY – have an album-length release from Babaganouj, with this little bubbler kicking off the festivities. Always an instantly loveable act, this and all the songs on the LP land as woozily and as packed full of fuzzy, jangling melody as ever – a wait worth every damn second ⌛️”
“Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers return with their fangs bared and with sharper weapons drawn. As up in your face as ever, but with greater menace, this is as glorious and fearsome a track as they’ve released to date, capable of drawing blood with the lightest touch to the skin 🔪”
“Neighbourhood Void are in the zone right now, barrelling through a fertile creative patch that’s producing one shiny guitar gem after another. Their latest is chock full of modern existential dread and anxiety, a little monster of a track, bouncing wildly in the dark 👹”
“This is just one track from Private Function’s fizzing new album, but it sees them at their majestically bonkers best. Taking the zaniest bits from The Ramones and lounge singers and late night mischief and smashing them all together in a filthy shoe, they’re the manic and wide-pupilled antidote to anything that ails you 💊”