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Dead End Drive-In – Mea Culpa
9/10 Some bands pay way too much attention to what’s come before them and end up sounding like carbon copies of their favourite bands. For examples of this, see Trivium’s The Crusade, Throwdown’s Venom & […]
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Georgia Fearn – Perfect On Paper
9/10 Humble readers, I think we may have a young Tori Amos. Georgia Fearn, seventeen-year-old singer, guitarist, pianist… (she’s seventeen people, from Carmarthen, Wales) released her debut album Perfect On Paper earlier this year (March […]
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Dr.Doak – It’s Time to Leave
5/10 The classic glass half empty, or glass half full; you’re going to have to tell me on Dr Doak’s release, It’s Time To Leave. It’s an ambiguous mix of pop punk, grunge, and rock; and […]
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Colin Weeks – Magic EP
10/10 Need a dirt-cheap vacation to somewhere warm and sandy and not soul-sucking? Plug in to Colin Week’s little gem of an EP, Magic. This four-song, pop-soul release is as smooth as a baby’s bottom and […]
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Like Pacific – In Spite of Me
7.3/10 The sophomore release from Toronto-based Like Pacific has the band picking up right where they left off on their 2016 debut Distant Like You Asked. Another installment of anthemic, emo pop-punk tunes that’ll keep your heart […]
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Some Antics – Not Very Fun at Parties
7.5/10 Ah, pop punk. Somehow it has endured through its relatively brief but still respectable tenure among other spikey-haired subgenres, never quite becoming the most popular, but never disappearing either. To their credit, while Not […]
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Cuecliché – Look at the Pictures
6/10 Cuecliché, a three-piece skate pop-punk band based in the UK, has recently released their second, self-recorded EP titled Look at the Pictures. Following up their 2017 debut release One Last Chance, Look at the […]
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Copper Crown – Walk With Fire
8/10 It would be simple and indeed true to call Copper Crown’s debut full-length album Walk With Fire ska. However, it would also be a great injustice, as there is so much more to Copper […]
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Makes Good Choices – The 1984 Draft
5/10 Pop-punk bands get on in their years as time marches along. For there to be any hope in authentic music the gears of said music must naturally follow suit. The 1984 Draft’s Makes Good […]
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Sage – Sage
7/10 If you were to take the popish feel of The Beatles, cranked up the heavy, then sprinkled a little bit of indie rock and finally dumped the entire fuzz jar in, you’d probably get […]