PARANOID VISIONS – Re-Pressed Emotions 2XLP (FOAD/Urinal Vinyl 2020)
If one good thing has come of underground music in the year of prevailing lurgies, it is that forced inactivity has given some bands the time to take stock of …
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VULPYNES – US AGAINST THEM – CD/12” Vinyl EP (2020 FOAD records)
Squeals of feedback set the landscape for US AGAINST THEM and Vulpynes continue to develop as a compact but impetuous force of guitar noise. From what the ever-unreliable interwebs tell …
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PETER JONES – TO OLD TO DIE YOUNG – PARANOID VISIONS, PUNK ROCK AND ME (Rotator 2020)
At this point, there have been very few Irish punk books – the fragmented written history of it all is represented in print by the Hope Collective’s IN CONCERT book, …
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VULPYNES – DYE ME RED – limited edition 10″ (FOAD Records 2019)
Finally, Vulpynes returns with a second EP of primal snarl and noisy passion. Apparently these tracks have been sitting on the hotplate since late 2018 – meanwhile the band busied …
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RADIATORS – GHOSTOWN 40th Anniversary Reissue – Double CD (Chiswick Records 2019)
There are few albums as ingrained in my head as GHOSTOWN, and while I thought it would be an easy one to rattle off a few words about, the act …
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STRIKNIËN DC – Dead in the Live Room CD (2019 FOAD RECORDS)
It’s feels strange to be reassessing archive material from the 1990s Dublin punk underground. These recordings are a quarter of a century old and at the time they were made, …
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THE LEE HARVEYS – Resistance is not Terrorism – coloured vinyl LP Special Edition Pack (FOAD Records 2019)
This record is an interesting proposition, a 12” EP of new material paired with a flipside of peer favourites as voted, suggested and harassed for inclusion via a kind of …
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VARIOUS – LAMPAIGN – IRELAND – Irish Punk Compilation LP (Deadlamb Records 2019)
Deadlamb Records seems to have been lurking in the background for some time, with a steady output of Irish and international punk product including Nomatrix, Jobseekers, Disturbance, Greenland Whalefishers, Plan …
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VULPYNES – Vulpynes – CDEP ( Headcheck Records 2018 )
Vulpynes has been a name lurking ever increasingly on my radar – local gig bills and assorted online recommendation rants – until I eventually found myself under the same roof …
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ALIEN SHE – FEELER ltd edition 12” Green Vinyl (Art For Blind Records 2018)
This is the limited edition vinyl release of FEELER, an album that was technically launched in early December 2017. Some manner of sleeve manufacturing woe held the physical product to …
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