Nite Songs

  Signed to Wicked Cool Records, we first encountered Marc Ribler via his Shattered  single way back in March which was a pleasant slice of Ryan Hamilton style power pop. Hailing from New Jersey, it's maybe not a surprise that he's found himself on Little Steven's label and the opening title track here definitely reminds me a bit of an '80s track from his mentor which is no bad thing with maybe a touch of Electric Angels style spiteful pop sensibility. Second song I'm Comin' Around  sees him going almost full on country-pop and while it's nice enough, you do feel like it could do a bit more of a kick in with the sugary sweetness. In fact this seems to become more of an issue as the album goes on - The Only Truth  is a nice enough song but it's a bit difficult to get the spectre of U2's painfully self-righteous  Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of  out of your head when you're listening to it. The haunting War On Peace  at least sounds a bi...

  So here's part two of this month's Singles Bar featuring a few more singles and a trio of EP's as well, Plenty to get our teeth into so let's crack on pronto, eh? We last heard from Adam & The Hellcats  last year with the enjoyable  Welcome To The Madhouse  single. They have put out another one since in House of Straw  but honestly I wasn't that big a fan of it (sorry guys) hence why we didn't feature it on here. However, new effort  Bending The Knee  (🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑) is a big improvement sounding like some unholy collision between fellow Bristolians Vice Squad and the Sisters of Mercy at their most bombastic. A big stomping six-minute epic, this is a good taster for the upcoming Hellcats album due in April, Looking forward to it.  Bandcamp link here Split single time and this one is a bit of a mouthwaterer as Nottingham scumbags The Hip Priests  team up with the legendary Supersuckers . While the 'Suckers track Deceptive Expectations has a...