Author: Team Uber

Casey – ‘How To Disappear’ (Hassle Records)

Back in late 2018 Welsh post-hardcore exponents Casey seemed to demonstrate that they knew how to disappear (sic) in a blaze of glory as, after a remarkably short career that produced just one EP (2015’s Fade) and two albums (2016 debut ‘Love Is Not Enough’ and 2018’s ‘Where I Go When I Am Sleeping’), they announced they were calling it a day. However, almost exactly five years later, they re-emerged from the darkness of the valleys, with a double A-side single and a run of comeback shows… now, they prove they are back (but for good?) with a third album…

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Night Thieves – ‘Polarity’ (Self-Released)

We first came across London alt-rock quartet Night Thieves when they stole our hearts (sic) with their second EP ‘Spiral’ back in October 2021, We described said release as ploughing “a somewhat unusual musical furrow between the commercially sensitive power pop of the likes of Paramore, the alt-rock innovation of Garbage and darker prog-rock sensibilities of Incubus and Muse”. Now, a little more than two years later, the foursome are back, and following a heavier and more gothic noir with this introspective yet explorative new offering.

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Robby Krieger and The Soul Savages – ‘Robby Krieger and The Soul Savages’ (The Players Club)

When one thinks of The Doors, one is automatically drawn to the captivating imagery of the band’s confusing, enigmatic, energetic frontman, an artist subsequently and often copied and imitated but never equally or surpassed. But, of course, to make a band as enduring and timeless as The Doors, you have to have more than a charismatic frontman. And part of the enduring attraction of a band like The Doors is that, outside of the doomed icon that became Jim Morrison, it was constituent of three other highly accomplished musicians, each of whom brought their own dynamic and influence to the band’s overall sound, and thus contributing to the endurance it continues to enjoy until this day.

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Alluvial – ‘Death Is But A Door’ (Nuclear Blast)

Monk loves it when he’s able to approach an album without any preconceptions, either media- or self-induced. And so it is has been in this case, as this album arrived in the ÜRHQ inbox with absolutely ZERO information attached. All that we got was the name of the band and the album, and that all-important link to listen to/download the latter – which is actually a four-track EP… The fact that the band are signed to the ever-eclectic and usually super-reliable Nuclear Blast imprint did indeed pique the boss man’s interest enough to hit the “read” button – and subsequently that marked “download”, as Alluvial have produced the first genuinely heavy release of this nascent new Über Rockin’ year…

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