Something a little lighter this time! Fragile Creatures hail from Brighton and craft straight-ahead indie-pop tunes with more than a little Beatles-flavoured spice. Their latest effort – this eponymous EP – is tightly packed with solid ideas, quirky musicianship, and plenty of emotional variety. Great for those moments when life’s pressures become too much and all you need is a decent pick-me-up. Read more…
Irish prog-metallers Ilenkus sure know how to stir things up. The moment opening track Devourer kicks in, we’re chucked into a merciless rhythmic maelstrom and dragged through tangential twists and turns punctuated with screams that might echo our own, were we allowed to pause for breath. Relentlessly intense, skin-rendingly cathartic, and hectic as fuck – and that’s just the first track. Read more…
Chelsea Grin do not piss about! Heavy as Tolstoy and as dense as a black hole’s singularity, Playing With Fire is exactly what you need if you’re struggling to stay awake as the excitement of summer fades and winter slowly rolls in. Or if you just feel like listening to some music that kicks serious ass and takes more names than an identity thief. Read more…
If you’ll pardon the pun, there’s something to be said for a precisely delivered lyric. Timing, word choice, vocal delivery and all of its complications – there are so many elements that need to be approached flawlessly in order to make a song super-effective. On No Love, No Hope, No Future, Canvas get it all right – again and again and again. Read more…
Parachute For Gordo are nothing if not inventive – and this video serves only to carve that statement in stone and shine a crystal-clear spotlight upon it. Fittingly quirky, unusual, and strangely attractive, Decoy Octopus is a must-watch for anyone willing to push some boundaries and indulge their arty side. Read more…
Absorbing rather than alienating, feel-filled instead of soul drainingly self-indulgent, and valuing honesty over obfuscation and pretentiousness: Artery is the kind of album you’ll be listening to until you’re old and grey if you afford it the time to sink beneath your skin. Read more…
Progressive music should live up to its name. In other words, it should progress and look forward rather than lazily gazing backward into retro-ville. With that in mind, it’s great to hear Falsense getting it right once again. Read more…
Alt-J may project a slightly different vibe to previous TMMP reviewees Slipknot, but they’re no less experimental. Every Other Freckle is, in its own way, complex and challenging yet equally rewarding and even joyous. There are sounds in here that you will not – will not – hear anywhere else Read more…
While listening to this album, I felt less of a listener and more an explorer of some strange, alien world. Read more…
Dirty Loops do it again.