Reviews

Our pals The Faction have made it their Feature Album this week, let's take a look at the record! Meshuggah have pushed a new album into the world today through Atomic Fire Records - and by gosh, it's definitely a Meshuggah album - the requisite things are all there, that's for sure. But does it stand up to the rest of their catalogue and what's happening right now?

"Somehow, even though it was only Forster playing an acoustic guitar, phantom traces of that striped sunlight sound hung suspended in the air – outlines of oboe, snatches of strings, ghost notes."

Thornhill played a string of shows where they debuted upcoming album 'Heroine' in full. Here are my raw & unedited notes from the evening along with photos from Christopher Roese.

Christopher Roese

The best new new tunes you need in your life from this week including Arno Faraji, Sycco, Triple One, Denzel Curry & more

Pricey and Lili got to hear the media-exclusive live-stream of the Dream Widow (The fictional band featured in Foo Fighters' Studio 666 movie) EP this week. We jumped on Zoom and reacted to the stream ahead of its release today!

"What stops these songs from drifting out of memory is the precise writing and arrangements whose subtle cleverness is easy to miss on a casual listen but which come alive in concert."

The best new new tunes you need in your life from this week including Nite Fleit, AK SPORTS, Charli XCX, Young Franco & more

The mixtape, which is titled 'Foreign Language' is set to release on the 29th of April.

Emo Christmas returned to Tarwin Lower over the weekend after over 2 years away (cheers COVID). When gates opened at 2 PM on Thursday and that campsite was rushed with punters, it was like no time had passed. Band by band notes & pics below!