We are excited to begin 2021 with our thirtieth issue and a magazine that is full of exciting prospects for the year ahead. One band who are ready to seize the new year is Dry Cleaning and they’re on the cover. As the band prepares to release their debut album ‘New Long Leg’ via 4AD, we catch up with them and discuss how they’ve filled the pandemic silence with gear and volume. Denmark’s Iceage are another band ready to unleash an album this year. With a move to label, Mexican Summer, complete, we speak with frontman, Elias Bender Rønnenfelt about the new album, religion and focusing on what’s next.
In London, deathcrash have had a busy twelve months. Touring their brand of post-rock with Black Country, New Road and releasing a string of singles, the band have emerged as a post pandemic must see. We give the band a zoom call to chat about the London guitar scene and switching the focus from social media to just releasing music.