MERRIDEW on Facebook...

MERRIDEW on Facebook...

So yeah, our Lee does numerous musical projects, one being MERRIDEW, through which he's already put out a couple of EPs via Glass of Spit. It's kind of instrumental ambient emo / hardcore for fans of stuff like ENVY, THE COPPERPOT JOURNALS, and MAHUMODO, so if that sounds like your thing, you should go check it out on the new Facebook page, here:

https://www.facebook.com/merridewmusic

Or listen to stuff here:

http://glassofspit.bandcamp.com/album/fears-that-kindle-hope

or here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDKB8JbZ_Eo

Thanks a tonne! :D

xox

'The Screever' Orwell quote patches

'The Screever' Orwell quote patches

So yeah, Lee will be tabling at the Nottingham Zine Fest tomorrow (Saturday 12th October), attempting to shift some copies of our last few issues, but he'll also have a bunch of THESE; wonderful little George Orwell quote canvas patches, printed by the wonderful Lou at 13 O'clock Screen-printing. It's an appropriate quote given that it's spoken by the character in 'Down and Out...' whose 'profession' is a screever (a pavement artist). Not enough people wear patches these days, so pick one up and stitch it to your favourite jacket / backpack / satchel. Give us a shout if you'd like one!

Thanks a lot! :)

xox

Joint Last - 'Forever Endeavour' EP

Joint Last - 'Forever Endeavour' EP

So Lee's gone and done another EP, and this time it's four tracks of instrumental pop-punk, so if that sounds like your bag, head on over to Glass of Spit's Bandcamp to check the whole thing out:

http://glassofspit.bandcamp.com/

The CD will be up for sale (as soon as he's put all of the packaging together) from here:

http://glassofspit.bigcartel.com/

You can also give the second track a blast here:

Thanks a tonne :)

xox

New Alaska - 'Finer Lines of Tomorrow' review

New Alaska - 'Finer Lines of Tomorrow' review

So I picked up New Alaska's new 7 inch split with Chestnut Road the other day, a review of which will no doubt find its way into issue five of The Screever when it finally begins production. In the meantime, I thought I'd post this lil' review of their EP 'Finer Lines of Tomorrow' that was printed in issue four. Enjoy!

"In the digital age that we've been unfortunate enough to find ourselves dropped in, it's wonderful to see a bit of time and effort go into the packaging of a DIY release, and this CDEP has one of the nicest set-ups I've seen for a good while; a nice fold-out, poster-sized sleeve with crisp, clean photo artwork and lyrics with fab design work, a separate spine-sleeve like the ones you find on Japanese CDs, and a disc that has a black bottom like an old Playstation 1 game disc(!), all folded neatly into a plastic wallet... truly amazing stuff! As for what's actually ON the disc, NEW ALASKA from Stourbridge play indie-punk/ post-punk with some pretty cool, angular guitar work that reminds me of stuff like FUGAZI and THE COMPUTERS' old stuff, with some interesting time signatures. The pace and momentum never lets up on this, and all five tracks are pretty catchy, with some quite harsh, driving vocal melodies that have a way of drilling into your subconscious with some quite obscure but interesting lyricism. Good stuff; definitely a promising release from another band from the 'bridge."

You can find New Alaska on Facebook here:

https://www.facebook.com/newalaska

and Bandcamp here:

http://newalaska.bandcamp.com/

Thanks a bunch! :)

xox

13 O'clock 'Past Lives' scarf

13 O'clock 'Past Lives' scarf

You may well have read our interview with Lou from 13 O'Clock in the last issue of 'The Screever', about all of her lovely screenprinted goodness; well, she now has these pretty amazing stamp and paper ephemera-themed, screenprinted cotton scarfs for sale on her Bigcartel. They're absolutely beautiful, so go and check 'em out! :)

You can find them right here:

http://13oclock.bigcartel.com/product/past-lives-scarf

and the Facebook page here:

https://www.facebook.com/at13oclock

Thanks a lot! :)

xox

MERRIDEW - 'Summer' - Glass of Spit Recordings

MERRIDEW - 'Summer' - Glass of Spit Recordings

So yeah, our Lee will be putting this EP out next week via Glass of Spit Recordings; 5 tracks of ambient, instrumental emo, possibly for fans of THE COPPERPOT JOURNALS, MAHUMODO, and GRADE. He'll love you a tonne if you go and check out this opening track. Cheers! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6zzCjiUimw

Also go here:

https://www.facebook.com/glassofspit

Thanks a lot! :)
xox

Secular Plague - 'Death For Sale' review

Secular Plague - 'Death For Sale' review

I figured I'd stick up another old review from issue three of 'The Screever', this one of Secular Plague (who we interviewed for the same issue)'s album 'Death For Sale'...

"So these guys from France / Belgium play very old-school hardcore / punk rock (crossed with what they refer to as 'deathrock'..?) in the vein of bands like T.S.O.L, CIRCLE JERKS, and even stuff like CONTEMPT, favouring quite short song structures and lengths, mostly in the thirty second to one minute range, the whole 11 track album coming in at about 13 minutes. It's quite basic musically, sustaining a similar mid-to-fast pace throughout, driven by a repetition of power-chorded riffs. The vocals really carry the whole thing for me though, with an awesome, quite nicely reverbed semi-hardcore singing style with, as you may suspect from the album title, a lot of lyrics centred on animal rights, sung (as far as I can tell) in English, so I absolutely dig that, even if the accent does slightly inhibit my understanding of some of the lines. I actually think they've done a great job on the short song lengths; sometimes stuff like this can be really dull if the songs are too long and repetitive, but this collection of angry, energetic, and focussed tunes are just about right. I think the most memorable tracks on this are the opening title track, 'Scapegoat', and 'Angry and Frustrated'. I got this as a download, but it's also available on CD with some pretty awesome looking artwork and packaging that I might order at some point. Cool stuff."

You can find Secular Plague here:

https://www.facebook.com/secularplague

http://www.secularplague.com/

Cheers! :)

xox