Author: Team Uber

Crows – ‘Beware Believers’ (Bad Vibrations Records)

Londoners Crows formed in 2015, and having built their following, by way of chaotic and enduring gigs, released their anticipated debut ‘Silver Tongues’ in 2019. Putting the groundwork in paid off and the album received complimentary reviews by the likes of NME, who really just wanted to know what it was that took them so bloody long. In spite of the wait, the punk foursome’s first release spurred sell-out tours with the likes of Slaves, IDLES and Wolf Alice. If the rumours are to be believed, work on album two started that same year. However, it is now 2022…

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thrown – ‘extended pain’ (Arising Empire)

Someone in thrown hates automatic capitalisation. Lesley M knows this because they are bringing it to her attention on the downlow. Every time she write a sentence she must un-capitalise – if she had been lack-lustre enough to begin that sentence with this newly hatched bands’ name (How many hyphenated words can you fit in one sentence? Challenge accepted). Breathe. Of course, given her literary skills, this situation never arises. Apart from when the very first word she types must be that of the band….

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Dirty Shirt – ‘Get Your Dose Now!’ (Self-Released)

Are you bored with your current playlist? Perhaps you are looking for something a bit different than the bands you typically listen to? Then look no further our music-loving friends. Let me introduce you to the Transylvanian folkcore of Dirty Shirt. What started out as a wedding band has morphed into a magical, musical amalgam that blends modern hardcore and nu-metal with traditional acoustic instruments and Eastern European musical influences giving us an entirely new breed of metal with known as Romanian crossover folkcore metal.

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