A lot can happen in 6 months. It seems like just the other day, I was reviewing Tuath‘s EP release, ‘existence is futile‘ – fast forward 175 days, throw a Brexit, a May and a Trump into the mix, and survival appears ever more volatile.

The other week, my good friend and fellow connoisseur of fine music, Roberto Pinky Pasolli – he of Fnord Tapes and IndieToBe renown, shared the track ‘Little England‘ by the London band Slow Faction.

The rush was immediate and vital, teleporting me back to my former teenage self, listening to the likes of the Angelic Upstarts. Bands who share the gift of rhetoric, anthems soaked in the visceral struggle, for the overthrow of our chinless feudal overlords. Surely not too much to ask for, at this supposed pinnacle of civilisation.

Having been welcomed into The Gluts‘ wider family, since first discovering their innate recipe for “noise and punk” back in 2014, I fully appreciate their penchant for excess.

The latest video release for ‘That’s Me’, from their forthcoming follow-up album, to the debut ‘Warsaw‘, gleefully continues their effusive trajectory – ‘That’s Me’ is no shrinking violet, there are no reticent wallflowers here…

Hailing from Austin, Texas – Everything Fades is Kevin Flack, drums (formerly in Distance Runner), Daniel Owens, vocals and guitar (New Roman Times, Register, Marcy) and Marcus Piña, vocals and bass (Roky Erickson, Love Battery, The Astronaut Suit, Wild Seeds).

By way of introduction the Nomadic Firs‘ bandcamp page informs us that, “Nomadic Firs is a swirling conceptual sound journey orchestrated by the diy-lonerisms of Ryan Boos. With a decade of fermentation, the concept continues to evolve into a colorful devolution.”

The “swirling” nature of this track, captivated my attention when Ryan first contacted me.