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Album, EP and single reviews of both local bands and those playing in the region soon.

Table Scraps - Doom Generation
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Table Scraps sum up 2020 with riff-laden new single, Doom Generation

December 11, 2020 Emily Doyle Table Scraps

Table Scraps drop a thunderous new single; the first from their upcoming album Coffin Face. Watch the video here.

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cage park
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EP review: Cage Park are unleashed on the perfect ‘Parma Violets’

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 Samuel Lambeth Cage Park, FEET

Cage Park match the sweetness and addictiveness of Parma Violets with their amazing EP of the same title. Sam Lambeth reviews.

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dorcha - honey badger
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Album review: Dorcha embrace weirdness on genre-fluid LP, Honey Badger

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 Emily Doyle Dorcha

Dorcha’s tumultuous new album Honey Badger plungers the listener into a swirling pool of psychedelia. Read our review.

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martin reynolds you dirty blue
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Martin Reynolds looks on the bright side with solo debut ‘Strange Days Indeed’

October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 Emily Doyle martin reynolds, You Dirty Blue

Most readers will recognise Martin Reynolds as the drummer from Tamworth grunge blues outfit, You Dirty Blue. Over lockdown, Reynolds

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bad girlfriend birmingham band
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Watch: Bad Girlfriend are back with new video ‘Here It Comes’

July 20, 2020July 20, 2020 Sophie Hack Bad Girlfriend

Birmingham based punk trio Bad Girlfriend are back with their sludgiest, riffiest single yet.

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sunshine frisbee laserbeam
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Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam deliver a polished, snappy album with ‘Blackout Cowboy’

November 8, 2018July 15, 2020 Luke Charnley Birmingham, Blackout Cowboy, Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam

King’s Heath veterans Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam deliver a short yet sweet 7th album that distills down everything that fans love about them.

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the jewellers band
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Redditch band The Jewellers stamp their hallmark with impressive pair of singles

June 4, 2020June 19, 2020 Aisling Bruce New Music, The Jewellers

Redditch-based indie-rockers, The Jewellers, showcase their trade with the release of their first two singles.

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liamonino cover FINAL FINAL
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Liamosino’s debut single ‘Samhraí Imithe’ is a sun drenched breather in lockdown

May 23, 2020June 15, 2020 Sophie Hack Brain Food, liamosino, Review, SETTING SON RECORDS, single

The glowing new single, out now on local label Setting Son Records, drips in morning light and shimmers in 60s psychedelia.

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the taboo club debauched times
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Review: The Taboo Club usher in ‘Debauched Times’ on dark new single

April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 Samuel Lambeth Birmingham, Semantics, The Taboo Club

Birmingham’s purveyors of perverted cool continue their purple patch with ‘Debauched Times’, the lead single off their forthcoming album.

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table scraps lockdown
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Table Scraps release video for quarantine single ‘I Wanna Stay Home With U’

April 16, 2020 Richard Franks Table Scraps

The video for the extremely topical quarantine single features cameos from members of Idles, Dream Wife, Amyl and the Sniffers, God Damn and more

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