Nite Songs

  Okay, here we go friends, once more unto the breach... You know how this thing works now, ten albums a day from now until New Year's Eve - Bandcamp links (where we've got 'em) by clicking on the title. Let's do this. 50.     ASH - "Race The Night" I suppose the big problem with Ash is that, for better or worse, they will always be singing over the echoes of their glory years in the late '90s and early '00s. However, Race The Night  might just be their strongest effort since Meltdown  way back in 2004 - an enjoyable slice of power-pop with the tunes and melodies of old rightly pushed back to the fore where they belong. One of the more unexpectedly enjoyable comebacks of 2023. *** 49.     OBEY ROBOTS - "One In A Thousand" This collaboration between Laura Kidd (She Makes War/Penfriend) and guitarist Rat (Ned's Atomic Dustbin) proved to be another good addition to both of the involved parties' back catalogue. A collection of dark odes t...

  Heard ya missed us, well we're back. We didn't run a Singles Bar in January due to a lack of stuff to review (kind of standard for that time of year tbh) but I'm pleased to report that we've now got enough stuff to open the bar up again so let's open the fridge and get stuck in... *** Always good to have something exciting to start off the Singles Bar for a new year and the prospect of a new offering from  the Damned  definitely falls into that category. The Invisible Man  (🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑) is culled from Vanian, Sensible and co's new offering Darkadelic  and is a promising effort which just when you've got it pegged as a mid-tempo garage rocker suddenly goes into a full-on psychedelic freakout just to really throw you off. Looking forward to that new album chaps. *** I'm thoroughly ashamed to admit that I completely missed the memo about  Black Star Riders  having a new album out but rest assured we'll get a review up of it in the near future. In the m...

As that well known rock philosopher W Axl Rose once observed, it's hard to hold a candle in the cold November rain. I mean, he didn't say anything about reviewing new singles in it like but we've got to start somewhere. Anyway, come in and take some shelter from the storms outside why don'tcha and let's see what's on the singles bar this month shall we?... Anyway, starting us off as we take our seats at the bar this month are Bob Vylan , whose The Price Of Life  will almost certainly be up there when it comes to our end of year awards in a few months' time. Their new single The Delicate Nature  (🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕) featuring Slaves' Laurie Vincent might just be their strongest yet. Relatively restrained by the Vylan standards, it still has plenty of the anger of old directed against gentrification and the cleansing of underprivileged inner city areas but opts for a new stealthier approach railing against gentrification before amping up to a brutally heavy outro....