BLACK BISCUIT – Up All Night

BBIn 2008 US bar band Black Biscuit released their debut album ‘Blueline’.  It was ragged (often in a bad way), had odd attempts at novelty material and – most memorably – included a shameless rip-off of The Beatles’ ‘No Reply’.  It was hard to tell whether, as a band, they were playing things for laughs, or just not especially good.  Either way, ‘Blueline’ was a notoriously bad DIY record – in misguided terms, beaten only by the staggeringly awful 2010 effort from the now defunct Quakers on Probation.

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KING WASHINGTON – The Overload

The OverloadKing Washington’s debut album [‘The Gears’, released in the summer of 2012] was a special record indeed.  The previously unknown band really made an impression with their blend of retro roots rock and slightly more 90s attitude.  Just over a year later, their musical journey continues in a different manner, with KW keen to both expand their range of sounds on ‘The Overload’ and to shift outside of their comfort zone.

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