Tag: The Test Drive
The Test Drive: Elevant – Normal Life
Elevant are the thunderous genre absorbers heading the Loner Noise label.Since their formation in 2014 they've fused a host of disparate influences into a sound that can be dark and atmospheric, heavy and crushing...
The Test Drive: Orations – Wych Elm
Orations have released, what I would consider, a true album. I say true because every song, to me, gets to the very core of what music is all about. Imaginary and emotional exploration. The...
The Test Drive: Phil Odgers – Roll To The Left
Best known as one half of the legendary joint vocal strike force of The Men They Couldn’t Hang, Phil Odgers strikes out on his own once more with 'Roll To The Left', his latest...
The Test Drive: The G-O-D – Grafters OV Denton
The G-O-D, Simon Wolstencroft's current band, has released their new EP titled "Grafters OV Denton", a three track modern Merseybeat that's just as original as it is bound to it's roots. And those roots are deep....
The Test Drive: Maker – Move Your Feet
Infectious to the point of being contagious, Maker's new EP "Move Your Feet" chuck up five of the gnarliest, catchiest funk-punk "grunge-itude" clad hook laden tracks found on either side of the pond. I'm...
The Test Drive: Cowards – Teeth
Cowards was born in and around Blueprint Studios, Manchester by three musicians disillusioned with the Manchester gig scene but still in love with making music. Mike Charles, Grant Tildsley and Iwan Jones picked themselves...
The Test Drive: Days Indoors – Dusty Road
London based Days Indoors formed in 2015, the creation of drummer and songwriter Jean-Marc Valat who is joined by long-time collaborator Joe Killington on vocals, Gonçalo Charneca, aka Gonzo, on guitars and Matthew D...
The Test Drive: DocFell & Co – Dust Bowl Heart
On any given Wednesday, in a Tahlequah back alley that smells of fryer steam and hash browns, you can walk up a rickety flight of stairs and find yourself amongst the padded walls sound...
The Test Drive: Traveller – All This Time
The summer of 2012 saw Gerry Sheridan and Simon Usher begin their songwriting partnership, which progressed to become Traveller in January 2016 when they were joined by Martin Yves on guitar and Brian Socha...
The Test Drive: Echo Arcadia – Visions of Symmetry
Echo Arcadia are six piece Indie band from Edinburgh, Scotland who strive to "make music that will break your heart while your foot taps along." Guitars underpinned by thumping drums, thick bass lines and...
The Test Drive: Carly Thomas – Explode
Born in Thailand and raised in Argentina, France, and various parts of North America, singer songwriter Carly Thomas can trace her insatiable wanderlust to a childhood in which she never lived anywhere longer than...
The Test Drive: Fiona Brown – Demons
Singer songwriter Fiona Brown is inspired by roots, rock and soul music and her latest EP 'Demons' sees her embracing these influences wholeheartedly. Demons represents a coming of age for the multi-instrumentalist who says...
The Test Drive: Mike Milan Dedic – Mike Milan Dedic
Virtuosity is never a feat easily achieved, but in those rare times there comes a musician who makes it easier than it actually is. Toronto guitarist Mike Milan Dedic is one such musician. Seamlessly...
The Test Drive: .bipolar. – Seven
Making metal with heart is never easy, but .bipolar. pull it off with brilliance. The tracks on "Seven" have groove and an aural assault second to none as each riff would wet any guitarist's pallet...
The Test Drive: Memories In Broken Glass – Enigma Infinite
Masters of the thunderous rhythm, a.k.a. Memories In Broken Glass, are getting ready to release their upcoming album titled "Enigma Infinite". The "memories" may be in broken glass but the solid hammerhead beat and seething...
The Test Drive: Norquay – Vices
"Vices", the new EP by Norquay, is a varied texture of music genres combined in a seamless bliss of aural audacity that can re-invigorate the imagination of any music fan or musician proper. This...
The Test Drive: Bentley Jones – My December (The Closing of the Year Reissued...
Last year we reviewed Bentley Jones' album "The Rebellion", which later earned a well deserved spot on last year's "Best #Indie Albums of 2015". I really began to like Bentley around this time. I...
The Test Drive: Under Static Movement – The Mirror
A tight sound with a plethora of modernistic and unabashed hooks in every song, Under Static Movement are able to capture and re-release that special essence that so often aludes modern metal and that...
The Test Drive: Sounds of Sputnik – New Born Remixed
How many times can you remix a track or two and keep it fresh? Well, Sounds of Sputnik can prove that every good song has unlimited possibilities as long as you keep the hook...
The Test Drive: Something Like December – We’ll All Die Laughing
Something Like December has released their refreshing new EP titled "We'll All Die Laughing" featuring 7 tracks of fueled and on-point musicianship designed to keep the listener's attention as much as a well-crafted author. Each...
The Test Drive: Citrus Clouds – Imagination
Citrus Clouds really give a surrealist view of Shoegaze in the most honest and fulfilling way possible. Above all else, they have a sense of complexity about their music in that their music, song...
The Test Drive: James Edge and the Mindstep – Machines He Made
The songs that would ultimately form 'Machines He Made', the second album from James Edge and The Mindstep, had their beginnings in the band's 2013 tour. With a slimmed down gigging lineup featuring just...
The Test Drive: The Missendens – The Missendens
The Missendens are a rare breed: a band of like-minded individuals who have all earned their stripes the hard way, treading the boards at countless gigs for countless bands before coming together to create...
The Test Drive – Electric Sheep – The Exciting New Sounds of Electric Sheep
Eclectic at the core and enigmatic in execution, Electric Sheep have recorded an obscure masterpiece that is part rock, part shock, strongly solid and presented with a lucid fascination for popular music with "The...
The Test Drive: Hook Turns – Night Shift
Eclectic at the core and creative all the way to the top, Hook Turns new LP "Night Shifts" accomplish a complex yet serene journey musically with each and every song. Each track captures a...