About Sound

This article was written sometime in 2021 for a zine that was sadly never published. I had kind of forgotten about it, until the recent news of a Jump The Undergoud reunion. I haven’t changed a word! Much is written of Newport’s rich musical past. The 90’s, in particular, is… Read more

It’s a bit of a strange one, Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy. On the one hand, he/they have seemingly been around for years (their first single Babylon dates back to 2017), but on the other hand, the debut album has, until now, eluded the Newport singer and his backing… Read more

I didn’t review Katielou’s last single Boys due to the fact it was released on my own record label Dirty Carrot Records. I’d also heard the song from the initial demo right up to the master recording, which meant I felt a little too close to the song and that… Read more

Eureka! What’s this? It’s Eurekas (no ‘The’ and no exclamation mark, get it right), Newport’s newest band, and there’s some familiar names in this rather suave/slightly moody looking four-piece! We’ll go left to right from the bands first and only known official photo and thus start with bassist Rhys Jones… Read more

Feverjaw are a relatively new band, or at least they feel like a new band. Such is the effect on time perception the pandemic has had, I was a little shocked to find out that they have been releasing music for nearly two years, but in those two years they… Read more

I’ve barely written a word in anger for about two months. Blame it on COVID, blame it on the heat, blame it on my general lethargy, but what I really didn’t need was to focus my mind on sitting down to write a review, to get to 300 words, only… Read more

Deep in the depths of the creative Carmarthenshire community sits Llanelli’s ‘Oblong’ – A beautifully bilingual trio, jam packed with catchy angular buzz-saw guitar riffs and enough post-punk swagger to knock over a rampant manatee hooked on analeptics! I asked the band a few questions about their music and the… Read more

There wasn’t exactly a plethora of musical talent in my school year; a few guitarists, a trombonist and probably a hundred or more haunted from forced recorder lessons from primary school, but other than that it was pretty dry. There is, however, an exception; someone not only a multi-instrumentalist (guitar,… Read more

OK, a few weeks back I was given the new single by The Woodsman for a sneak preview. The song iscalled “Black Hole” and is released on June 11. The Woodsman are a brash, loud three piece bandfrom a town called Bargoed in the arse end of the Rhymney Valley.… Read more

I’m quite excited to finally get my head around the new “Puns” EP from Bristol based Instrumental duo Common Spit. I checked out a fantastic livestream where they performed a short set at the Exchange in Bristol earlier this week (which is currently up on their Facebook page I believe). Now,… Read more