All Single Reviews

Click Here to Read MoreI Am In Love – Call Me An Animal

I Am In Love have had a busy year and they’re treating us to even more with their new EP, Call Me An Animal.

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Click Here to Read MoreBear Trap – Chalk Outline

Bear Trap have kindly given The Monograph a sneak-peek at their forthcoming EP, bringing together everything a fan of Post-Hardcore yearns for: cathartic screams, overzealous distortion & overblown riffs, together with a generous dollop of electrical effects.

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Click Here to Read MoreSilent Devices – Verb

Reviewing Silent Devices, ‘Verb’ could possibly be one of the most rewarding challenges in my eyes (or ears I should say). I was lucky enough to be filming Josh, Scott, Charlie and Alex the evening that this track was produced by Jamie Ward…

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Click Here to Read MoreBuenos Aires – Fair Winds

What hits home on a cursory first listen to this rough gem of an EP is that Leicester post-hardcore kids Buenos Aires can really, really play. Glitchy, tightly-wound guitar and off-kilter drums patterns escalate the tension hypnotically until that next impossibly heavy breakdown, that next dissonant scream… all the while never dropping a triumphant sense of melody, of pop appeal…

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Click Here to Read MoreJunior Fencing Club – Carousel Capsized

Leicester has a certain individual charm when it comes to ‘spiky’ Pop/Math-Rock bands. With These Furrows’ career constantly gaining speed, Herra Hidro finally releasing new material and Buenos Aires continuing to test the rhythmic abilities of their listeners, Junior Fencing Club are in good company…

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Click Here to Read MoreBy The Rivers – One Word

It’s really exciting when local lads By The Rivers have news for us, whether it’s festival appearances, local shows, radio plays or tour dates, so when they announce that they are sharing a new single, it is particularly exciting…

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Click Here to Read MoreWe’re Not Worthy – No More Mr Nice Guy

Pop punk as a genre has always been a place of merriment and fun, a part of the music community that never fails to leave beaming smile on your face…

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Click Here to Read MoreCharlie & the Martyrs – Fodder Fights/Waylaid

Listening to Charlie and the Martyrs on a Sunday afternoon makes me want to skip through a meadow accompanied by my daisy chain headband and a lack of shoes…

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Click Here to Read MoreThese Furrows: Clarity

These Furrows have always been a bit of engima in my eyes, with more tatoos than Oslo from Keeping up Appearances and guitar straps so tight they are in danger of strangulation, one might be forgiven that it may be a case of style over substance for, the now three-piece, band…

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Click Here to Read MoreI Am In Love: Fool Am I

It’s no secret that staff at The Monograph are split in opinion about new Leicester electronic sensation I Am In Love, but either way, they have got people talking… a lot…

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Click Here to Read MoreHerra Hidro – High Command

Herra Hidro are one of the latest of up and coming Leicester bands who’re on the Robot Needs Home roster, and their latest EP which is due for release April the 19th is a perfect example of Leicester’s ever growing music scene…

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