News about the forthcoming Los Campesinos! full-length and attendant touring has circumnavigated the Internets numerous times at this point, and we don’t have much to add regarding the Feb. 18 release of Hold On Now, Youngster… save for the fact that Birmingham, England-based indie superheroes Johnny Foreigner will support some if not all of the [...]
After anticipating this release and subsisting off of MySpace rips of songs from Arcs Across The City for months, Johnny Foreigner‘s finished product surpasses our expectations. Although the appealing grit and rough edges of the successive demos are partially scrubbed away, the Birmingham, England trio’s characteristic, irresistible energy remains and is augmented by additional guitars, [...]
Arcs Across The City — which could have just as easily been titled Six Clattering Explosions And One Soft One — is the new gold standard in indie rock. After more than a decade of our comparing the merits of new recordings to monumental releases including Archers Of Loaf‘s Vs. The Greatest Of All Time [...]
While one of the more memorable lines in its song “Sofacore” suggests otherwise, rising indie rock dynamos Johnny Foreigner always sound like they are falling down. Or at least as if the Birmingham, England-based trio is in mid-careen as it slams out indie anthems for the underground. The band members themselves are so disarmingly charming [...]