About Sound is back, baby! For how long, I don’t know, but it was never meant to be here. And neither were you, or me, or any of us, or triple cooked chips. Not that I’m suffering from existential anxiety or anything. The first song ever reviewed on About Sound was Like A Fever by… Read more

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 often reminisced about to the… 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 band. But I’m not really… 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 I was now unable to… 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 (aka Rhys DW). Jones is… Read more