Over the course of a year, our Über team listens to literally hundreds of albums, and once again we set them the onerous task of selecting what they feel to have been the best new releases of the past 12 months. In total, our crack team submitted more than 170 albums for consideration, with their lists then fed into our state-of-the-art musical abacus to calculate our final top ten albums of 2018.
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For many years, the EP was a much maligned, and ignored, format, especially by the mainstream media. But, it is one which has always been championed by ÜR, as it serves as invaluable to new bands who often cannot afford to record full-length albums at the outset of their careers and just wish to get their music out to the wider world.
This past year has been a particularly rich one for the short-form release, with a wealth of quality releases from both new and established bands, the latter of whom have used it to keep fans thirsting for more while satiating that thirst in the wait for a new full-length album. With that in mind, we asked some of our team who are particular fans of the EP format to pick the “top of the pops” for 2018…
Read MoreThroughout the course of a year, our crack team of ninja photographers and reviewers attend literally hundreds of shows, from the massive arena tours that deign parts of the Über Kingdom of Rock ‘n’ Roll with their fleeting appearances to the unsigned bands knocking their proverbial balls in down our local pubs week in, week out. Here is our Über crüe’s choice of the best performances they have caught over the past 12 months.
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Taking Back Sunday have announced a run of dates as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations:...
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When a band prefaces their description of their music with the word “progressive”, that, as far as UR boss Monk is concerned anyway, naturally comes with certain preconceptions. When he sees the word “progressive” in a band’s biog, then he expects them to do something that is just that: break down musical boundaries, or push themselves to create new ones, rather than just adhere to accepted, airy-fairy norm of the genre whose name they employ. So, it was a pleasant surprise to discover that Finnish quartet Overhead do just that, albeit in a confusing and somewhat disconcerting manner which actually made it difficult to comes to terms with this, their fifth studio album, released on the cusp of their 20th anniversary year:
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