Servile Sect
Svrrender
Handmade Birds (2012)
Sitting down and listening to Servile Sect’s companion album to the great TRVTH has been a sincerely surreal experience in part because I have only just started diving into TRVTH on a regular basis in the attempts to suck all the marrow of its impressive soul and for the other part due to a nagging feeling in the back of my head whenever the companion album (SVRRENDER) is playing, and, at least initially, I cannot help but feel that perhaps SVRRENDER does not have that little extra “je ne sais quoi”; now I know what you are thinking (“you always say that it is unfair to compare records to other records and should listen to records purely on their own merits”) and in most cases that would be the correct thought process, but SVRRENDER is a full on companion album to TRVTH so this fact makes it necessary to do so. Here is the rub though (or maybe even the meat of the album); SVRRENDER takes time to truly familiarize yourself with all of the nuances and sounds that the duo of Servile Sect have imbued throughout this cassette tape, and maybe because of this necessary immersion into the twisted … Read more
Junior Bruce
The Headless King
A389 (2012)
Bloodlet seem to be a sadly forgotten band. Even in their time they were overshadowed by the other bands Victory … Read more
La Dispute
Wildlife
No Sleep (2011)
La Dispute is a band that catches a lot of flak. People tend to jump to conclusions about their “whiney” … Read more
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Area 52
ATO (2012)
Everyone's favourite thrash metal duo turned acoustic, Rodrigo y Gabriela stand out amongst their peers not only for their heavily … Read more
