For The New Consistent’s Ben Ramsay, making music is a constant battle against the “shit swimming around his head”. And while his debut EP, ‘Individual Social Accounts And Commentary’, predominantly wrestles with the teenage themes of heartbreak and overthinking, there’s…
Sleaford Mods are back with a song built around a bassline so Madchester that it sounds like a grim take on the Happy Mondays. The duo’s music is simple. Frontman Jason Williamson delivers politically incendiary lyrics over sparse, industrial beats…
Although they haven’t been together long, The Starlight Magic Hour have attracted a great deal of attention for their genre-defying depictions of ne’er-do-well wastrels. And while their penchant for NSFW lyrics makes them fitting signees to London label ‘Permanent Creeps’,…
Beginning yesterday and ending today (30-31 August), Electric Gallery in Shoreditch plays host to Bristol punks IDLES and the artwork they feel best encapsulate the themes, ideas and ethos of their new album ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance’ (Out today). The…
South London reprobates Honkies are back with a new single, ‘Kicking and Screaming’, that showcases their country-infused punk sound. The song is the first single from an as yet unnamed EP, that will be released via Permanent Creeps Records in…
The West Midlands city of Worcester has produced some famous exports through the years, B-Town heroes Peace were formed there, Swim Deep’s Austin Williams heralds from the city and now we have another young talent, The New Consistent, showing that Worcester is more…
