Heartworms announced herself as an exciting new voice in the British post-punk scene, and her debut EPA Comforting Notionwasreleased last weekthrough Speedy Wunderground. It’s an exciting time for Orme, and one that thankfully she can now share with her mother...
Tender, wry, delicate, and rich, I A Kiss across the Ocean i is a love letter to the theatrically potent musical and visual gestures of the artists and bands of the British postpunk scene that made a difference in the mid-1980s and continue to do so today, eve...
It’s a hardcore punk record that feels as though it couldn’t have been made anywhere else in the world, with Frank Carter’s often-incomprehensible cries still always carrying the inflections that take us right back to his home in Watford. Rarely does a band sound quite this tight at ...
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and then Ian Curtis’ haunting voice came over the top of it all. Joy Division weren’t hugely popular, at least not in the strictly commercial sense. But they kicked off the entire post-punk movement and (for better or worse) became the father of all gothic rock bands. And that’s ...
“best classic” music we lived for was made. But we can’t deny that we never put our fingers in our ears when certain hits of the early ’80s, particularly those coming out of the U.K.—songs that, at the time, were described as new wave, post-punk, New Romantic, synth-pop, ...
Big Special Combining sung and spoken vocals with a bruising mix of punk, hip-hop and electronica, British duo Big Special have been turning heads with their debut album, ‘POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES’. Championed by the likes of; Steve Lamacq and Tom Robinson on BBC Radio 6 Music, Amazi...
However, this shouldn’t come as a surprise asMemoriam’s Scott Fairfax is the beating heart ofAs The World Diesand he’d roped in some old mates to lend a hand – namely Karl Willetts (Memoriam, ex-Bolt Thrower), Dave Ingram (Benediction, ex-Bolt Thrower+ many, many other bands!) ...
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Bragg's guitar was electric, though, and his rough-hewn attitudes and vocals marked him as a clear product of the post-punk revolution, though he was also a folk troubadour in the best sense of that tradition. There were other acclaimed "rogue folk" performers that combined folk traditions ...