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Review: OFF! – ‘Wasted Years’

Furious, angry and unrelenting, OFF!’s latest album ‘Wasted Years’ bursts out of the gate with an energy rarely seen since the height of the punk era.

Their self-titled debut album established a distinctive sound, and this latest effort continues exactly where the first left off.

Punk itself has changed …

Live4ever’s Essential Listening 2012: The Best Indie Albums

Our Essential Listening 2012 series concludes today with The Albums.

From the ‘cohesion through experimentation’ of Tame Impala’s ‘Lonerism, through the ‘muscular power ballads, stirring, keyboard-led harmonies and call-and-response choruses’ that inform The Killers’ return with ‘Battle Born’, to the ‘sheer magnetism and unwavering belief’ which made ‘Blunderbuss’ such a …

Review: Off! – ‘Off!’

Punk rock has always been a young man’s game, and understandably so.

From the unchecked aggression of its three-chord primitivism to its inherently anti-historical aspirations, the genre as a whole has continuously relied upon a certain wild-eyed ideology that only the raw energy of youth seems to provide.

So it …