A deeper look at the grooves pressed into the Fantasy > Reality LP by MOVIESTARZ. Over the last fifteen years, those working within the punk genre have gone to great lengths to try and reinvent it – but everyone has always come up a little short on achieving something which has felt brand new and exciting. When VICE Records made the leap and attempted to reinvent hardcore with OFF! on their First Four EPs release, the results were fine and...
A deeper look at the grooves pressed into Pop Evil’s Versatile LP. Okay, this first observation of what Pop Evil is offering with their sixth album, Versatile, doesn’t actually have anything to do with the music pressed into the vinyl, but it would be easy to extrapolate an impression of the merits of this album, how it’s presented and the potential difference between “how it’s presented” and “what you get” from it. On the (surprisingly large) hype sticker which adorns...