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The Scottish band’s first album in 18 years is a deliciously nasty throwback to their savage 1990s pomp

The Sound of Identity Image credit: Creative Commons On Thursday last week, Britain got to enjoy the nationwide electoral celebration that was ‘Super Thursday’. We then got to endure an entire weekend of thrilling, adrenaline-fuelled news coverage as England became just a bit bluer than before; Scotland a little yellower with a few flecks of green; and Wales a bit redder and a bit less pink, and ultimately we got to see by the end that nothing much had really changed. These most recent elections were, in many ways, so conventionally uninteresting they seemed to have been forgotten before ...

In 2014, the singer channelled his aggression – and creativity – in a more fulfilling direction. The Lonewolves released their impressive debut album, Lost Songs Of The Confederacy. It came fully 35 years after the formation of the group in 1979. But, in fairness, there were mitigating circumstances for the delay. “The band had split up, so when that happens it’s very difficult to record anything, let alone an album,” King recalls. Even so, the consensus was that the Lonewolves had been given umpteen chances to realise their potential, but had consistently blown it. I’...

09 02 2021 INSPIRED BY PUNK, angered by Thatcher and in love with ’60s culture, the UK indie scene produced some of the greatest (and oddest) pop records of all time. It all began on December 28, 1976 at Indigo Studios on Gartside Street in Manchester. The Buzzcocks had just recorded and mixed four songs destined for the Spiral Scratch EP. A month later the EP would be released on the band’s own New Hormones label, in the process spawning a scene of musicians, songwriters and labels hell-bent on doing it for themselves. Forged in the political turmoil of the late ’70s and early ’80s, ...

Generationals Say For Certain Trust In their second release, Trust (EP), the band is audibly transitioning from a jangling, sun-kissed sound in the vein of Aztec Camera or Felt to pop drones distinctly more hypnotic, textured, and challenging to conjure accu...   more »rate comparisons for. The shimmering hooks, girl-group choruses, and late-summer breeziness of Con Law remain intact in EP's title track (""Trust""), but are joined by feedback loops, drum-machine beats, and abstractly dubbed-out, wobbling basslines throbbing organically in the mix.