Black Lungs is the pseudonym adopted by Wade MacNeil, the guitarist from cult Canadian hardcore band Alexisonfire, for this debut solo album which sees him leave behind that band’s raw aggression in favour of something more introspective and personal.
After a couple of bars of endearingly lo-fi acoustic strumming, frontman Benjamin David drearily informs us that he ‘just died in your arms tonight’, thus immediately causing you to think to yourself, “ah now there’s a tune!”
Saying good things about Glasgow art rockers Popup is a bit like talking about how rubbish the weather is – pointless because it’s so bloody obvious, and yet you feel compelled to do it anyway.
Although it is tempting to praise The Pigeon Detectives for the prodigious rate at which they’re churning out records, that temptation disappears quickly when the results are as dull, derivative, and utterly forgettable as this, the second single from their second album, ‘Emergency’.
I have no idea what Sean Tillman was thinking about when he came up with his Har Mar Superstar persona, but I’m almost certain it wasn’t King Tut’s on a wet Wednesday night. Funnily enough, when I think of King Tut’s on a wet Wednesday night, I rarely picture a sweaty, balding, overweight Ron Jeremy [...]
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