Matthew Mansell likes to listen to music, eat Strawberry Pop Tarts and is also Cornish.
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El Yunque – Hasselt, Belgium. Cover photo credit: Geert Braekers Photography – Click Here. El Yunque are a four piece Noise Rock band leaning on sounds from Slint, The Jesus Lizard and Fugazi, as well as modern contemporaries such as Big Ups and Iceage. Their debut album Baskenland is grating and filled with glass cutting...
Hume – Wendover, England, United Kingdom. Hume are a three piece band from a classic piece of English countryside, blending Jazz and Blues and that whole tricky “singer-songwriter” tag. Their two singles already released, ‘In Between’ and ‘Calm Down’ are the little lick of the fiery handshake of the sound that...
Milk Teeth – Bristol, England, United Kingdom. Cover photo credit – Anabasis Media. Milk Teeth are a biting Bristol blend of Punk-Rock and gritty Grunge, and their debut full-length, Vile Child, is one of the most exciting debut rock albums I’ve heard in a while. Following up their 2015 EP Sad Sack, which had...
Leggy – Ohio, Cincinnati, USA. Cover photo and above photo credit – Natalie Palmer Ah, Leggy. The dreamy Lo-Fi Garage Rockers from Cincinnati are back, and if their last EP, Nice Try was ‘like Vanilla Ice Cream (with some Kirsch), Apple Pie (with gold leaf Vanilla Kirsch Ice Cream), and Romeo and Juliet…...
Vundabar – Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Photo credit by Caitlin McCann Boston three-piece, Vundabar, are (in their own words) a ‘Sludgy Jangle Pop‘ band – and what are you supposed to take from that? It could be that The Smiths fell into a tar pit? (Maybe). This young Bostonian trio’s second album Gawk is catchy...
