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Opensight - The Outfit
Pic Alvaro Gekko Looking for escapades of adventure and longing for inspiriting drama and viscerally imposing jeopardy, than enlist in The Outfit. That cinematic invitation encapsulates all that lies beneath the title of the new album from UK metallers OPENSIGHT and across eleven tracks that take ears and the imagination on a shadowy ride to the most compelling sonic drive-in. For anyone new to…
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Design – Faithless
After time away “prompted by personal circumstances”, Italian quartet DESIGN returns with a new album in the darksome shape of Faithless. It is described as “an intense and deeply conceptual work that explores loss — both personal and symbolic — as a lens through which to interpret a present stripped of meaning.” It is a record that pulls the listener into a place as rayless and desolate as its…
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Trial Tapes - 5 Notes
Pic Anton McMahon_ As raw and untamed as it can be there is often certain beauty to DIY/lo-fi driven music too that is epitomised within the 5 Notes EP from TRIAL TAPES. It is a five-track offering of indie/synth rock spirit and enterprise fuelled by honest intimacy, a proposal best described as being a real treat for the ears. TRIAL TAPES is the project of Liverpool-based queer songwriter and…
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The Greenberry Woods - It's All Good, Sugar...
Baltimore-based indie pop/ alt-rock outfit THE GREENBERRY WOODS is back and with a brand new collection of songs. It is their first full-length since their acclaimed Sire Records released albums in Rapple Dapple (1994) and Big Money Item (1995) and the first thing that is plaintively clear is that age and time has not diminished their power pop prowess. After the second of those two notable…
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DELREI feat. Collin Hegna - Wicked Wicked Ways EP
At certain times we all slip into deep contemplation of our lives, past and present and of possibilities to come and maybe at times with an almost cinematic glaze around such thoughts and vision. Presenting a soundtrack just as richly evocative and darkly poetic to accompany such moments is the Wicked Wicked Ways EP, an offering of three tracks that are as haunting as they are enlivening. The…
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Black Market Heart - What Happens in the Dark
What Happens in the Dark is the perfect example of why with any release we never start tapping keys until we have been greedy with the play button. It is the new album from Los Angeles based trio BLACK MARKET HEART and an encounter that, across our first outing with its nine-track body, did make a good impression. Since then though and across numerous involvements, the record has become an itch…
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Best Band - The People's Cub
Brew a sonic potion embracing the DIY punk oddities of TELEVISION PERSONALITIES, the post punk dissonance of DIAGRAM BROTHERS as well as the curious peculiarity of Young Knives, and the untamed pop mischievousness of THE PIRANHAS, and you might come up with something akin to the sound that fuels another album to wax lyrical about in these early months of 2026. It is The People’s Cub, the third…
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SUX - SUX SELLS
Released a handful of weeks ago, Sux Sells is an album that could quite easily slip you by. It is one of those records that might make a big splash on arrival but its ripples quickly dissipate in this crowded social media dependent world rather than have the tsunami like effect it should have. Often there is no justice for greatness but as its creator’s home populace of Seattle will roar, it is a…
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Lowsunday - Low Sunday Ghost Machine Black EP
Pic by Christina Sahene With the release of a remastered version of their debut album, Low Sunday Ghost Machine and soon after the Low Sunday Ghost Machine White EP, it can be argued that 2025 saw US darkwave-shoegaze outfit LOWSUNDAY have one of their most potent and acclaim courting years in their 30-year history. The second of those releases was especially notable with it offering the first…
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Entangled in the Shameless: Part 2 Conviction
Merely one step behind the first part of our latest exploration of the ear and imagination sparking sounds our Canadian friend Shauna, she of the band Ummagma and of Shameless Promotion PR brought our way mere days ago, part 2 is a place for shadows, drama, and beauty to gather as too fascination across a handful of must explore offerings.. It is only a week or so since France-based UK…
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Entangled in the Shameless: Part 1 Fascination
Once those familiar steps made their way to the door familiar excitement was eagerly guiding hands to the door handle. It was the latest visit from our sonic adventurer buddy Shauna from the band Ummagma and of Shameless Promotion PR and once more she was bearing a bagful of musical goodies. Her explorations fear no boundaries or particular avenues of sound and once again we have had a fevered…
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IRKED - The Grievance
Pic Ellen Dixon We first found ourselves irritated by IRKED in 2024 through their self-titled first EP. It gave us a physical and emotional itch that has never lessened, and indeed, recently found itself being further inflamed by the UK outfit with the single Who Asked? It is irritancy though that only pleasure has derived from with their sound a delicious aggravation that an instinct for…
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Big Band of Boom - Self Titled
Light the touch paper and stand well back is the usual instruction to intentional explosions though when it comes to BIG BAND OF BOOM we are not sure any distance will be sufficient to escape the tumultuous energy and dynamics of their sound. The UK outfit unleash a fusion of red-blooded rock and fiery big brass band incitement, rich incitement that has already earned keen plaudits across a host…
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Dead Reynolds - Yellow Weather Warning
Obviously we are not in the habit of giving out weather reports at The RR but we have had to make an exception. Thankfully the reason is nothing ominous or sinister and we can only say that the outlook is bright if accompanied by thunderous clouds, and a prospect to seriously embrace. This update is ‘sponsored’ by UK outfit DEAD REYNOLDS or to be more accurate, caused by their new storm of an…
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The Family Men - Co/de/termination
Like a great many, we have no opposition to being teased, aroused, and seduced yet we also have a penchant to being challenged, confronted, and contaminated when it comes to music, and that is exactly what Co/de/termination the new album from The FAMILY MEN brings, a union of invitation and persecution. It is a trespass that persistently hit the right inclinations and instincts here with is…
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The Corner Laughers - Concerns Of Wasp And Willow
Six years after the release of their seriously acclaimed album Temescal Telegraph, Northern California indie-pop quartet, THE CORNER LAUGHERS unveil its successor in the shape of Concerns Of Wasp And Willow. It is fair to say that anticipation has been eagerly active in many quarters since news of its release and intrigue with it having a lot to live up to, but it is equally true to say that it…
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Kill The Silence – Resolve
It is over a decade since UK post-hardcore outfit KILL THE SILENCE demanded our attention here with a self-titled EP and since then they have certainly cemented their status as one highly promising band. Recently, the Leeds-based quintet unveiled their latest offering, and it is easy to suggest that the Resolve EP is the declaration of a band ready to stoke major fires. The band’s current…
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