2020 may be a year which is trespassing bodies, emotions, and mental stability like no other but it is also becoming one of the most striking for musical ingenuity and essential releases. Another fitting the bill is the new… Read More ›
The Duel
Flesh Tetris – High Score
We left checking out last year’s debut album from UK outfit Flesh Tetris by declaring it “a tonic for the musically curious, a rousing reward for the bold.” It was an adventure with the band’s unique sound and creative devilry… Read More ›
Flesh Tetris – Wrong Kind of Adults
Self-described as “Retro SciFi Eurotrash armed to the teeth with barbed pop hooks and weaponised synths” or “Pop music for unpopular people”, the Flesh Tetris sound is to pin it down, simply one of a kind. Like an off-kilter dance-floor… Read More ›
Flesh Tetris – Insert Coin EP
We have all come across and been excited by the prospects of Super Groups; adventures bred from the union of various members of renowned and occasionally legendary bands. Sometimes it leads to new pleasure sometimes disappointment. In the far busier… Read More ›
Ruts DC – Music Must Destroy
Back in the day, The Ruts stood to the fore of the punk scene in sound, presence, and lyrical insight, an attack which evolved but never diminished as Ruts DC emerged from the sad death of still missed frontman Malcolm… Read More ›
Healthy Junkies – Box of Chaos
It was September 2013 when we last had Healthy Junkies igniting ears with a release; that being their impressive second album The Lost Refuge. One of our parting lines then was that the UK had “come of age and you… Read More ›
Brassick – Self Titled
Building on a reputation earned from their first release and a live presence which has venues aggressively rocking, UK punks Brassick have released their self-titled debut album and fair to say whatever acclaim already garnered should be outshone by all… Read More ›
Loaded 44 – Come On!
If there is a fiercer more contagious slab of rock ‘n’ roll around right now than Come On! it is sure to be a major triumph as the second album from UK punks Loaded 44 is one mighty stomp. From… Read More ›
The Top Twenty Noise/alternative releases which had The RingMaster Review lustful in 2014
2014 saw a torrent of creatively inspiring and dramatically thrilling encounters from the inventive realms of noise and alternative incitement, a host of triumphs from which The RingMaster Review picks out twenty releases covered by the site which ignited the… Read More ›
Slice Of Life – Love And A Lamp-Post
Since co-founding and being the raging roar of punk band Crass in 1977, Steve Ignorant has challenged and examined life and society with voracious intent. It is a constant part of his art whether music or in other mediums, a… Read More ›
