Album Review: Sandgrown by Jack Cooper (2017) (Trouble In Mind Records)

If you are from the UK and of any class below upper middle, the chances are that a very significant number of your married mates had their stag weekend in the 'Vegas of the North' that is the Lancashire coastal town of Blackpool. 

Album Review - In the Lover's Corner by The Love-Birds (2018) (Trouble in Mind Records)

The Love-Birds would be a veritable pastiche of all things 70/80/90’s jangle-pop if it was not for the fact that somehow, despite wearing some very obvious influences on some very  prominent sleeves, they still manage to adroitly refresh whatever type of jangle into something with enough originality to give it an altogether ‘The Love-Birds’ feel.

Album Review - Around the House by The Chook Race (2016)

Jangle-pop is increasingly changing. Perhaps some would say dying? Somehow the current movement within the genre is seeing numerous bands crank the voice decoder up to maximum 'echo spooky', add more distortion than a politicians promise to anything that threatens to even consider becoming melodically beautiful, before drifting off into areas previously only really occupied by shoegazey sorts and their mystical grumpiness.

Album Review - This Is Glue by Salad Boys (2018) (Trouble in Mind Records)

It has been a while...in fact a bloody long time...exactly two years and four months to be precise...since the Salad Boys released their last album, Metalmania in September 2015. Normally my existence would be unfettered by such a delay, but with these jangling kiwis it has bugged me somewhat. In fact more than it probably should.