Review by Kirsty Middlemist I discovered Kris Barras Band in 2021, which means I missed the blues-soaked opening chapter of Kris’s career and instead met the band mid-transformation. What hooked me was the harder rock direction that Death Valley Paradise and then Halo Effect leaned into — bigger riffs, bigger choruses, a [more…]
Wood Burnt Red: Finding a Simple Place in the Tarpit of Modern Life
By Lily O’Delia There’s a restless, phantom energy that lingers in the floorboards of Nam Studios. It’s the same English soil where Royal Blood tracked their debut, and you can feel that raw, percussive history bleeding into the latest release from Wood Burnt Red called Simple place. Despite their heavy Americana and Southern Rock soul, this is a band [more…]