Her Parents – Happy Birthday
Creating something that sounds more bonkers than their debut Physical Release was going to take some doing, but Her Parents seem to have achieved the impossible with Happy Birthday, an album that is a brief, scything affair (12 tracks in 18 minutes) but proves to be absolutely punishing and suitably deranged, caustic and jolly good fun...
August Burns Red/Marmozets/Torche/We Are The Ocean – singles round up
Singles round-up time! This week we've shouty metalcore-types August Burns Red, bonkers math-punkers Marmozets, the sludge-pop stomp of Torche and the awesome song hit machine that is We Are The Ocean...
The Semper Teens – Somebody
Somebody is four tracks of pop-influenced garage punk, that doesn't sound a million miles away from Cassini's previous band, albeit it's a lot more direct and less erratic compared to Kill Kenada and their bonkers time signatures. Opening track Somebody, has a bass-driven surf punk vibe that you can imagine soundtracking a surfing wipeout video montage...
Arms And The Man – Blood Junkie (Debut Video)
Hertfordshire-based Every Time I Die-loving, popular beat-combo Arms And The Man have gone and recorded a video! Blood Junkie depicts a little girl traveling to the band's show and commencing to have a one-man (girl) mosh pit - all flailing limbs, swinging hair and seems to be copying every move made my madcap frontman, Ben Davies. ...
New stuff from Your Demise, Fights and Fires
So….I guess some news or something? Baseball-cap wearing jokers Your Demise keep on truckin’ it seems. ‘The Golden Age‘ only came out last year (March) but they’ve already been back in the studio and are ready to chuck out some more noisy, hardcore punk shenanigans. The ‘Cold Chillin‘ EP (featuring artwork of a Monkey Pope) ...
Guest post: Jack Murray’s Top 10 albums of 2012
Guest post time! Jackson Lee ‘The Machine’ Murray, former member of The Bareback Ninja Turtles, current drummer for Ratpigeon and the Ratpigeon Experience (a tribute to Ratpigeon, by the members of Ratpigeon) gives Keep It Fast his top 10 of 2012. - 10. METZ – METZ This self titled debut from Sub Pop signed three ...
Rock Sound 100% Volume: 166
Condensed version of this month’s CD: buy We Are The Ocean, Title Fight, Monuments, Minus The Bear, Death Letters, House Vs Hurricane and Trapper Schoepp and the Shades. - We Are The Ocean – Story of a Modern Child Now reduced to a four-piece, (vocalist Dan left in June) We Are The Ocean, who seem ...
Blowgoat – Blowgoat
Band – Blowgoat Album – Blowgoat Label – None (HOW?) Release date – out now Sounds like – spicy, drunk ‘n roll I approve of the gnarly Bill Murray artwork that Blowgoat have utilised to adorn their EP cover and t-shirts. There’s something about the shadowing and the wrinkled, weather-beaten face that makes their merchandise ...
Pulled Apart By Horses – Tough Love
Band – Pulled Apart By Horses Album – Tough Love Label – Trangressive Records Release date – Now Sounds like – Epic cursed wolf handed bromance dipped in gold I would hate to say that Pulled Apart By Horses have grown up. ‘Tough Love’ is, in many respects, just as stupid, loud, obnoxious and gnarly ...
Rock Sound 100% Volume: 159
Punk rock dominates this month, with The Menzingers, Sharks, Your Demise, Say Anything and Above Them all being superb. I can see my bank balance taking a bit of a hit later on, mind. The Used – I Come Alive What the fuck is happening on this? Sounds like a load of xylophones being played ...
