• Album Review: Title Fight – ‘Hyperview’

    With the 2009 release of their debut full length “The Last Thing You Forget” the aptly named Title Fight became something of a minor overnight sensation. The 12 tracks of moody, energetic punk with subtle but essential tinges of classic emo angst firmly established them as the heavyweight champions...
  • Music Advent Calendar #6: Reuben – ‘Christmas is Awesome’

    Holding up the philosophy that Christmas music should not only be festive, but diverse, Impact has compiled a list of 25 ‘Christmas songs’ to take you through advent. Including not only songs which are indisputably part of the Christmas canon, but also straying into areas of music which holds looser links...
  • Playlist: Bagpipe B-sides

    The Scots have had a busy old year. The vote for Scottish independence divided the country and everything got a wee bit serious. As the dust settles around Alex Salmond’s feet it seems an appropriate time to join in unison and party. What better excuse to join a nation...
  • Album Review: Christian Fitness – I Am Scared of Everything That Isn’t Me

    When I went to see Against Me! on Halloween 2007, the newly formed Future of the Left opened. Three guys in costume walked out on stage to a half empty back room upstairs in the old Birmingham Academy, berated the audience for not dressing up for the occasion and then...
  • Album Review: The Gaslight Anthem – Get Hurt

    As much as I love The Gaslight Anthem, I can’t quite get over the feeling that they were carefully designed as the ultimate guilty pleasure for guys like me. It’s not that they are bad, but their particular brand of nostalgic longing for a mythical golden age of Americana...
  • Album Review: Water Torture – ‘Pillbox’

    Feeling glum as your holidays wind to a close? Already starting to feel down about the prospect of trudging ‘back to school’ in a few depressingly short weeks? Why not chase away those summertime blues with some nihilistic Sludgecore courtesy of Buffalo, NY’s Water Torture? I came across this...
  • Album Review: Nai Harvest – ‘Hold Open My Head’

    In the midst of the often laughably misguided wave of seemingly relentless 90’s nostalgia currently invading every aspect of popular culture, an exciting new batch of bands have arrived on the DIY punk scene to breathe new life into a dying genre. In the wake of the underground success...