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“Should Be Sweet smash it hard into the pavement, heavy and explosive. While the heftier, slower parts encourage banging of heads and spraining of necks, it’s the faster moments that cause the most damage, kinetic effects through melodic velocity.” Gallery Listen
“Amends’ songs fit with the clear blue sky they play under this afternoon but, although it’s all expansive and glorious, there’s always – always – trouble brewing on the horizon somewhere. The tension and the tunes are on full-volume display today, a(nother) set to emphasise just how impressively this band delivers mood, story, and song.” […]
“The Lonesomes are fearsomely loud, an explosive smash and grab inside your head that leaves you floundering in the rubble. Tightly concussive but landing in unpredictable waves, it’s shock and awe delivered with surgical violence.” Gallery Listen
“L.A.R.M can’t help but ripple with energy and fizz, heads bursting clear of the surface of the lo-fi eggpunk sea they clearly enjoy swimming in. Electrically-charged and wired to the gills, the manic and tiny bloopiness is paired with some ferociously large songs, breaching and crashing like crazed whales.” Gallery Listen
“Physical Copy’s relentless, merciless rhythms pound and pound and pound at you until you simply collapse under the weight of their hectic psyche. There’s no point resisting it – you might arrive as sober as a High Court judge, but by the end you’re as high as a lost balloon.” Gallery Listen
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“Antenna burn like a flare, all heat and light and sparks. The rhythms don’t so much pound as they incite, the guitar roars like a train in a tunnel, and then there’s Shogun’s vocal, which scampers up and down the scales like a squirrel through the trees. It’s enough to burn the retinas out of […]
“The PeeWee50s hare noisily about the place, spraying gravel and doing skids, gleefully making enough noise to scare away the birds. They switch gears easily between scruffy garage and richly harmonic power pop though, and there’s a steel core of wildly melodic song throughout the whole thing. It’s damn near irresistible, basically. What a great […]
“MEOW MEOW AND THE SMACKOUTS’ spiky yelp never runs out of fun, bouncing off the walls and taking chunks out of your leg. It’d be easy to make a cartoon out of this band but that would be to sorely underestimate the sharp songs that underpin it.” Gallery Listen