Bellatrix Y Ori – Bristol, England, United Kingdom. The Bristol based Bellatrix Y Ori describe themselves and their operation as thus: ‘We formed specifically to record in the studio so I suppose we’re doing things a bit backwards’. To admit such a thing is respectable and I would say personally,...
Oceans – Brighton/London, England, United Kingdom. Cover photo credit: JC Riot Photography – Click Here. Based between London and Brighton, Oceans are a band that class themselves as taking a new spin on the hybridised and commonly mixed genres of Post-Hardcore and Alternative Rock. Ordinarily when you read of a...
Mike Perry – London, England, United Kingdom. Fu Inle Records is an Experimental Alternative music label based in and around London in England’s south. The label focusses on those artists who break, blend and distort musical ground into something well their own and with the latest single from Mike Perry boasting...
Shot Of Hornets – Mold, Wales, United Kingdom. Sonically perplexing, genre bending and soundly idiosyncratic, Mold based Shot Of Hornets are putting my hearing and literary capabilities to the test and I’m gladly bathing in this glorious difficulty. July saw the band’s latest EP, Make Out A Picture and upon receiving an...
SUNNERS – Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Post-Hardcore à la Baltimore. Baltimore is on the list of cities I would like to visit when I eventually get stateside, primarily because of what I hear of it’s music scene. Over the last few years I’ve been introduced to many bands from and that...
He Was Eaten By Owls – London, England, United Kingdom. He Was Eaten By Owls, of which I will from now on just refer to as Owls, are a self styled “Queer-Math/Chamber-Punk” band from London, who’s album Chorus 30 From Blues For The Hitchhiking Dead, of which I’ll refer to...
Hawking – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Editor’s Note – Today’s Fresh Picks follows suit in showcasing new music outside of review requests and subscriptions, but also breaks the chain in that this feature was written by veteran Musically Fresh reader, Sam Taylor, who gives his thoughts on why YOU need to hear the...
Montoneros – Denver, Colorado, USA. It’s a fine line between dreamy musicality and pretentious wank, and that line is even more blurred for genres like Math-Rock, which can often be overly self indulgent. Luckily for Denver based band Montoneros, they are far more ear-wormy. Through including a brass section and...
Kitsune – Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Kelowna based Kitsune have been writing and recording music together since spring 2015, which has now finally culminated into the debut EP, Compass. Showcasing a soaring and melodic Post-Hardcore sound that has enough of genre’s “classic” attributes but at the same time, something of a...
Box The Sky – Edgware, England, United Kingdom. So, we were recently having a scroll through group posts, spreading the MF-love and we receive a message. A brief conversation later and BOOM! A great band is discovered and a review is born. London/Edgware lot, Box The Sky, are a band. A band...