2009: Year’s Best Music
Where “best” is used in the subjective sense of “what I liked the most”. You want analyses of what was most finely crafted or most significant in terms of pop cultural trends, go read Pitchfork or a...
View ArticleBomb the Music Industry! – Adults!!!: Smart!!! Shithammered!!! And Excited By...
I’ve not reviewed Bomb the Music Industry! on NFI before, although I did reckon last year’s Scrambles was the second best album of the year. That aside, it feels difficult to review a band that you’re...
View ArticleGrown Ups – Songs EP
When I first started writing this review I wrote a few lines about how some music sounds like a warm hug feels; or like sitting in the sun with your friends, like laughing and drinking or dancing and...
View ArticleGhost Robot Ninja Bear – self-titled EP
It’s been irritating me for weeks: just who does Ghost Robot Ninja Bear vocalist Oscar Albis Rodriguez remind me of? So far I’ve only been able to prod my finger towards the vocal stylings of...
View ArticleDiamonds – An Introduction (EP)
Diamonds (“The Band”) are a four-piece outfit from the Black Country, composed of members of regional mainstays like Mothertrucker, The Shoguns Decapitator, The Hubble Constant and Fawks. I’ve heard of...
View ArticleMixtapes – A Short Collection of Short Songs
You may remember Mixtapes from my review of their split with Milwaukee’s Direct Hit!, about which I said: “…the least convincing band rivalry since Radon burned that church down and Bad Religion wrote...
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