Artist: Gallows Album: Gallows Genre: Punk Label: Venn Records/Bridge Nine Records At risk of being hopelessly obvious, the first thing that strikes the listener about this album is how markedly different Gallows sound without Frank Carter. Any band that undergoes a change of lead singer is bound to have an accompanying change in dynamic, but […]
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REVIEW: Gallows – Gallows
September 13th, 2012 
Grace Duffy 
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Tags: album reviews, frank carter, gallows, Gallows album, punk (genre), Reviews, self titled, Wade MacNeil 
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REVIEW: Grizzly Bear – Shields
September 12th, 2012 Grace Duffy Artist: Grizzly Bear Album: Shields Genre: Indie, folk rock Label: Warp Records This album is quite infuriating. In the course of my listening, I’ve spun from abject hatred to mild indifference to partial enjoyment, then back to hatred and then enjoyment again. Basically, I’m not quite sure what to make of it. Every now and […]
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REVIEW: Bob Dylan – Tempest
September 11th, 2012 Josh Hammond Artist: Bob Dylan Album: Tempest Genre: Bob Dylan Label: Columbia Let’s just put into context what a writer is up against when asked to break down the music of Bob Dylan. The album crooning through my Koss headphones will mark the 35th album released by the man. That’s 3 more albums than I have years […]
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REVIEW: Matchbox Twenty – North
September 10th, 2012 Grace Duffy Artist: Matchbox Twenty Album: North Genre: Rock Label: Atlantic Records So much of the discourse around Matchbox Twenty seems to focus on their nascent days of fame and how to recapture it that it’s startling. Even for a band that’s so well-known, there’s an alarming emphasis on recognition and achievement and being seen to do […]
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REVIEW: Imagine Dragons – Night Visions
September 6th, 2012 Grace Duffy Artist: Imagine Dragons Album: Night Visions Genre: Indie, rock Label: Interscope, KIDinaKORNER Records Edging ever closer to brilliance, Imagine Dragons come tantalisingly close on their debut full-length Night Visions. This is at times a searing and exceedingly memorable album, but also one that can’t quite maintain the stroke of genius throughout. Halfway through, it seems […]
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REVIEW: Again For The Win – We’ve Been Here Forever
September 4th, 2012 Grace Duffy Artist: Again for the Win Album: We’ve Been Here Forever Genre: Alternative rock Label: Deep Elm Records Again for the Win are a curious thing, and We’ve Been Here Forever is a curious album. A good one, mind, but one that’s difficult to define and discuss. It’s very odd and mysterious and often quite bleak, […]
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REVIEW: Get Scared – Built For Blame, Laced With Shame EP
August 31st, 2012 Grace Duffy Artist: Get Scared Album: Built for Blame, Laced with Shame EP Genre: Alternative, post-hardcore Label: Grey Area Records One needs some endurance for this EP. It’s only 21 minutes long but it’s on fire. In the deranged, frenzied, embodiment-of-pure-madness way, and this is not always a good thing. It is unfortunate, as I remember being […]
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REVIEW: Sparks The Rescue – Sparks The Rescue EP
August 30th, 2012 Grace Duffy Artist: Sparks the Rescue Album: Sparks the Rescue EP Genre: Pop-punk Label: (None) Considering Sparks the Rescue’s recent chequered history (member departures, label schisms), this Kickstarter-funded EP could easily have been populated with lots of morose, self-indulgent songs about rejection, bitterness, and loss. This is not so, however. On this seven-track EP, the band’s fourth, […]
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REVIEW: The Dollyrots – The Dollyrots
August 29th, 2012 Grace Duffy Artist: The Dollyrots Album: The Dollyrots Genre: Pop-punk/pop-rock Label: Arrested Youth Records Four albums in, it’s business as usual for pop rock duo The Dollyrots on this eponymous release. The band’s sound is clinically breezy and spirited as always; the album laden with feelgood, suitably infectious anthems and odes to carefree living. It’s a populist […]
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REVIEW: Minus The Bear – Infinity Overhead
August 27th, 2012 Grace Duffy Artist: Minus the Bear Album: Infinity Overhead Genre: Indie Label: Dangerbird Records/Big Scary Monsters (UK) Minus the Bear are a unique entity in their field – and not just because of the amusing song titles that populate their back catalogue (see “Lemurs, Man, Lemurs,” a personal favourite). The band is often described as indie, and […]
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REVIEW: Case In Theory – Cinematic
August 3rd, 2012 Grace Duffy Artist: Case in Theory Album: Cinematic Genre: Alternative rock/Progressive rock Label: DIY Have you ever had a sudden, blissful moment of insight where you hear a sound or style that innumerable bands have strove and failed to achieve and then someone instantly, effortlessly, captures it? No? Just me? Well, Cinematic may just change your mind. […]
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REVIEW: Duck. Little Brother, Duck! – Don’t Take Our Filth Away
July 12th, 2012 Grace Duffy Artist: Duck. Little Brother, Duck! Album: Don’t Take Our Filth Away Genre: Alternative Label: Topshelf Records I know I’m not supposed to like this, because this is all faintly ridiculous. And yet…I kinda do. There’s no consistency beyond the rough and tumble set-up; the songs are all varying lengths and it’s nigh impossible to figure […]
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