Self-funded indie-rock five-piece Trail deliver one great track and an album full of not-so-much on debut full-length To The Rest Of The World.
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Self-funded indie-rock five-piece Trail deliver one great track and an album full of not-so-much on debut full-length To The Rest Of The World.
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Tags: indie, pop, rock, To The Rest Of The World, Trail
Psychedelic stoner-krautrock? Kyuss meets Can? Sign youself up for the Summer Sessions, as Causa Sui invoke the lazy vibes of hazy days smoking in the park.
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Tags: Causa Sui, jam, krautrock, psychedelic, riff, rock, stoner, Summer Sessions
London four-piece Hope & State evidently remember when pop-punk went bad, and their Grand Gestures EP captures the moment before that in ragged lo-fi glory.
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Tags: Grand Gestures, hardcore, Hope & State, pop, pop-punk, punk, rock
Mis-billing themselves badly as grunge revivalists, Starseed’s debut album Peace Machine would do quite well in the pop-metal arena… if it were half as long.
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Tags: hard rock, metal, nu-metal, Peace Machine, pop metal, post-grunge, rock, Starseed
Person L show that good things can happen when people get bored of playing pop-punk-emo; The Positives is a patchy but promising indie-retro-rock album.
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Belgian post-everything outfit The Hickey Underworld manage to impress with their unpretentiously taut and hook-laden self-titled debut album.
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More Belgian oddities from the Jezus Factory in the form of Static Moves, Sukilove’s new album of… whatever you’d call this stuff. Antwerpian alt-psyche-pop?
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Tags: abstract, alternative, avant-garde, pop, psychedelic, rock, Sukilove
Dean Fertita takes a break from QOTSA/Dead Weather/Raconteurs duties to release an album of psychedelic power-pop-rock under the name HELLO=FIRE. It’s decent.
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Tags: HELLO=FIRE, pop, psychedelic, rock
Woodstock proggers 3 (second prog band of the same name, apparently) have a new album of oldies called Revisions. Hey kids, can you say “contractual obligation”?
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Tags: 3, classic rock, prog, progressive, Revisions, rock
Burly nu-grunge noiseniks Zico Chain are still going, y’know. They’re not quite sure what they want to sound like, but they sound pretty decent nonetheless.
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Tags: alt-rock, alternative, grunge, punk, rock, These Birds Will Kill Us All, Zico Chain