review: everything changes in the end by vistas
Over the past four years, Scottish-based Vistas have earned their title as one of the most promising upcoming indie bands. Their highly anticipated debut album, Everything Changes in the End, seems to establish this for them further. It’s thirteen tracks of pure joy, with cheerful vocals and upbeat guitar riffs. It’s the type of album…
modern baseball – not just your average band
It’s been three whole years since Modern Baseball announced their indefinite hiatus from touring and music. And it’s been three whole years of me never truly getting over it. And I think it’s time that I searched for some sort of closure. On surface level, Modern Baseball don’t exactly seem like the most groundbreaking band.…
review: notes on a conditional form by the 1975
I’m not sure when or if I planned to listen to The 1975’s fourth full length album. It almost seemed set up to fail: its release was delayed by almost a year, a string of controversies surrounding the band and their manager turned fans against them, and the album was slammed so brutally by critics…
review: ugly is beautiful by oliver tree
One look at Oliver Tree’s social media is enough to catch anyone up with his stunts: sitting in a bath of hot Cheetos, riding the world’s biggest scooter, crashing the world’s biggest scooter, being hospitalised as a result of the world’s biggest scooter…the list goes on. The lead-up to the release of his debut album…
twenty one pilots revisited
2013 was a shaky year for the emo genre. On the one hand we have the breakup of My Chemical Romance, a tragedy that loomed over all of our heads for years. But on the other hand, Fall Out Boy were back and better than ever, easing the mourning of our loss with what has…
thoughts in small print 