HECK – ‘Instructions’ [Review]

HECK - Instructions - Album Review

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You are lying in a field. It’s sunny. Everything is happy. Good. Nice. Yay.

Suddenly, black clouds obscure the sun. Drum-thunder rumbles for a second or so.

Then the hail begins.

Freezing, harsh, relentless. Bullet-like balls of ice fall from the sky, their journey ended only by the soft flesh of your face. You flail frantically, your hands tugging your hoodie’s hood over your head as you get up and run. Head down, eyes Read more…

Posted on 25 February 2016

Therapy? – ‘Tides EP’ [Review]

Therapy - 'Tides EP' (Review)

Over the course of the past 26 years, Therapy? have been renowned for diving deep into the darkest recesses of the human mind, and returning with musical treasures aplenty.

2015’s Disquiet – listed as one of TMMP’s albums of the year – was a hard-rocking winner, crammed with Read more…

Posted on 23 February 2016

Wolf Down – ‘Incite & Conspire’ [Review]

Wolf Down - 'Incite & Conspire' Review

Appearances can be deceiving.

Wolf Down’s music is hectic, aggressive, and vicious. From the moment first track proper Against The Grain kicks off with harsh beats and old-school thrashy riffage, you’d be forgiven for assuming that Wolf Down are here to do little more than get in your face for no good reason. But below the surface, Incite & Conspire is set to deliver a message centred in sensitivity, sense, and compassion.

It’s easy to forget that hardcore isn’t all about one thing, namely getting Read more…

Posted on 17 February 2016

Milk Teeth – ‘Vile Child’ [Review]

Milk Teeth - Vile Child

We’re all familiar with the feeling of being on the edge of falling apart. Struggling to get by, yet somehow keeping it together.

Milk Teeth’s music is the sonic embodiment of that state of mind.

Vile Child is a fucking challenging album. Imagine a mega-jam involving pretty much every even remotely grunge-related band from the ’90s, the chaos controlled only by an insistence that the results groove as hard as Read more…

Posted on 26 January 2016

TMMP’s Top Albums Of 2015 [Feature]

TMMP's Top Albums Of 2015

Joe Satriani

2015 has been a big year, soundtracked by a slew of spectacular albums. Picking an overall favourite was a pretty stressful task – and in the end, Jon Gomm’s gorgeous collection of live fan picks and what is, in my opinion, the definitive modern-day Joe Satriani album both had to go on top.

Deciding who would ultimately top the tree was made infinitely easier by putting them in alphabetical order by surname; if you put a gun to my head and demanded I choose between Jon Gomm and Joe Satriani in terms of quality, you’d just have to shoot me. They’re two sides of the same coin, Jon Gomm representing the acoustic world, Satriani the electric. Put together, these guys represent almost unparalleled guitaristic virtuosity.

In joint second place, you’ll find a whole host of alphabetised winners who would each be done a terrible injustice were they to be placed in a lower position. From legends with glittering careers spanning decades to stunning comeback albums and a fair few brand new names facing bright and hopeful futures, TMMP’s top albums of 2015 are all here.

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1) Jon Gomm – Live In The Acoustic Asylum

1) Joe Satriani – Shockwave Supernova

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Posted on 05 December 2015

Heck – ‘The Breakers’ [Review]

HECK

If your day is getting to you, listening to The Breakers could go one of two ways:

1) Heck’s beyond-insane mathcore-or-noise-or-whatever onslaught helps you release all that tension and frustration, as you headbang your way into a blissfully ecstatic semi-transcendent state…or

2) It just gives you a headache, resulting in you taking all the painkillers and maybe weeping from the trauma.

Either way, at least some kind of Read more…

Posted on 23 October 2015

Sevendust – ‘Kill The Flaw’ [Review]

Sevendust

11 albums into a world-beating career, keeping things fresh and interesting is a tough ask. Still, Sevendust have good reason to keep looking forward, possessing a fanatical fanbase hungry for freshly forged metal.

Kill The Flaw grooves hard from the get-go, rammed to the gills with churning riffs (opener Thank You), super-tight modern stabs (Death Dance), and unstoppable tidal waves of metallic tones (Forget). Letters pulls back briefly before the brilliantly structured Cease And Desist takes things to a new, epic level; Not Today anxiously twitches before those intimidatingly Read more…

Posted on 02 October 2015

2000 Trees 2015 [Festival Review]

2000 Trees

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Few things in life feel as good as immersing yourself in something you love. Diving deep into awesomeness, allowing the world’s worries to slip away, replacing baggage with better things. Escaping.

Of all the modern world’s escape hatches, music remains one of the most enigmatic and rewarding options. However, everyday life offers few opportunities for extended periods of musical immersion. You can walk down the street under headphones, spend a lazy Sunday in the company of your sound system with the curtains drawn, or spend an evening at a top-class venue taking in a few bands – but for many music fanatics, such experiences still don’t go deep enough.

2000 Trees certainly does. Situated on an out-of-the-way Gloucestershire farm in a 3G-free dead zone, the Trees site is an ideal location for digital disconnection, and reconnection with simpler things. The feeling of sun on your face, wind on your skin, and pure live music vibrating every cell in your body.

Arcane Roots’ (95%) set was the perfect reward for an Read more…

Posted on 15 July 2015

Blood Youth [The A-Z Interview]

Blood Youth

TMMP regulars Blood Youth return for a special one-off interview…

A song that made you want to make music: Scar Tissue – RHCP.

Best album ever written: Slipknot – Iowa.

Craziest moment you’ve experienced in the band: On our last tour we stayed at Stanley Kubrick’s mansion.

Deepest lyrics from one of your songs: Your eyes tell me Read more…

Posted on 29 June 2015

Rolo Tomassi – ‘Grievances’ [Review]

Rolo Tomassi

Four albums into their career, you might expect Rolo Tomassi to chill things out and give themselves a breather for once. But have they?

…Kind of, actually.

Grievances gets going with Estranged, an idiosyncratically Tomassi amalgam of hectic skin-beating barrages, stabbing and churning guitars, and a relatively low-key section that brings to mind dark alleys and glistening knives rather than sunshine and fluffiness. Raumdeuter takes Read more…

Posted on 22 June 2015

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