Planet Rock - USA (2020-04)

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BEST TRACKS: Your Broken Shore, A Secret
Kiss, To Outlive The Gods

BROKEN WITT REBELS

OK Hotel

SNAKEFARM

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BEST TRACKS: Money, OK Hotel, Save My
Life, Fearless

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FRONTIERS

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BEST TRACKS: Rise, Higher, Price We Pay

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ROB EVANS

BEST TRACKS: Waiting For The Sun, You’re My

Angel, In My Heart

Brian Fallon

LOCAL HONEY

LESSER-KNOWN

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From The Gaslight

Anthem via The

Horrible Crowes

through to his solo

career, Brian Fallon

has yet to deliver

a dud. This offers

evidence of a

special talent

growing ever

stronger.

Sepultura

QUADRA

NUCLEAR BLAST

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On album 15, the

Brazilians still

sound like men

with something

to prove.

Gotthard

#13

NUCLEAR BLAST

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Switzerland’s

biggest hard rock

band, Gotthard are

honorary citizens

of the Sunset Strip

circa 1989. But

tackling Abba’s

SOS rather shows

up the mediocrity

of their own

songwriting.

Intechnicolour

BIG SLEEPER

BIG SCARY MONSTERS

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Brighton-based

and blatantly

influenced by

Kyuss, Mastodon,

Baroness and

QOTSA,

InTechnicolour’s

fuzzy, tripped-out

desert rock

homages are

rather charming.

Koyo

LIVE AT RAK

88 WATT

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Previously

available as a

merch item, this

album finds Leeds

pysch/prog rockers

KOYO flexing their

muscles across six

tracks taken from

their 2017 debut.

It’s a heady trip.

PAUL BRANNIGAN

SHORT CUTS

Growing

stronger:

Brian Fallon.