Dillon Eastoe

2 months ago | readdork.com | Dillon Eastoe |Dan Harrison

Label: Columbia RecordsReleased: 14th February 2025Having accepted their days of hit singles are behind them, Manic Street Preachers have nonetheless continued releasing albums at a regular tic, and ‘Critical Thinking’, their fifteenth, finds them scratching their heads at the cultural landscape they find themselves in.

Aug 12, 2024 | readdork.com | Dillon Eastoe

Label: Staple Diet RecordsReleased: 2nd August 2024Roaring out the traps with a couple of their best songs in years, the one-two punch of ‘Asleep’ and ‘Stuck in the Car With You’ sets out Twin Atlantic’s stall for what’s been billed as a return to their roots.

May 16, 2024 | readdork.com | Dillon Eastoe

Label: CapitolReleased: 10th May 2024When Kings of Leon took to the Pyramid Stage to headline Glastonbury in 2008, their highest charting single to date hadn’t even troubled the top ten. Fast forward just a few months and smash hits ‘Use Somebody’ and ‘Sex on Fire’ had forever changed their trajectory, marking a point of no return. Much as they might sometimes have wished otherwise, when glowering through an infamous Reading headliner, for instance, the toothpaste was out of the tube.

Dec 5, 2023 | readdork.com | Dillon Eastoe

Label: Moth Noise / Is Right RecordsReleased: 17th November 2023After supply chain issues delayed 2022’s aptly titled ‘Now or Whenever’, new album ‘Here Come the Early Nights’ is another fitting title for Spector’s latest record; it’s a more reflective affair than the onslaught of bangers we’ve become accustomed to from the quartet, ruminating on the tension between the rock’n’roll lifestyle and the more adult concerns of fatherhood, property and balding.

Aug 17, 2023 | readdork.com | Dillon Eastoe

Label: Downtown MusicReleased: 18th August 2023Belatedly back with a new album after reforming in 2020 to celebrate the 10 years since their formation, Tribes go back to basics to remind themselves what people loved about them when they arrived at the end of the late 00s indie boom, with their raw and ready Myspace demos hinting at the next big thing.