At the end of 2021, Manchester band SINKR arrived on the rock scene with their debut single. Taking obvious musical cues from Pixies, Therapy? and Bivouac, the two track release wasn’t always big on originality, but they were clearly very good musicians, and the material was strong enough to suggest that, over time, the band’s talents would grow, and listeners who still love the sounds of the early 90s might eventually discover a new favourite band. A follow up album ‘History of Things To Come’ (released in June 2022) brought their growing audience more of the same in places, but between the punky ‘The Cut’, post-emo-ish ‘Factories’ with its huge, lolloping grooves, and the overdriven post-grunge meets melodic punk of ‘If Only’, there was more than enough to suggest SINKR had grown as musicians, even over such a short period of time.

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