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2026-10-18 00:53:32 GMT

My Eyes – Day By Day – 7″ (2025)
Japan is crushing it at the moment in terms of the screamy emo goods, and this four-track EP from My Eyes is another winner. Hailing from Sapporo, the band tread a fine line between 90s emo meltdowns and the springier, more indie rock end of the spectrum a la Braid. The title track kicks things off with some tumbledown octaves and desperate vocals, reminding me of bands like Mainspring, Wallside and a less splenetic Vidablue. ‘Joy’ is probably my favourite track here: it picks up the pace a bit, opening up with a neat stuttery riff before injecting a punkish sense of energy. ‘5:25’ (which, contrarily, has a runtime of 3:13) is the only track here that doesn’t really do it for me – the music’s fine, but the singer straining so hard for those elusive melodies gets a bit too Sky Corvair for my liking – before closing out on a positive note with ‘No Title’, a sparse, skeletal instrumental that teasingly leaves you wanting just little bit more. It’s a strong EP with a whole bunch to like about it, and I’d definitely be in the market for a 10” or LP’s worth of material to see where they take things next.
my eyes "day by day" by my eyes
https://collective-zine.co.uk/2026/10/17/my-eyes-day-by-day-7-2025/
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2026-10-17 02:39:58 GMT

Master’s Ashes – How The Mighty Have Fallen – download (2026)
This is one of those funny records where I started off thinking it was just ‘okay’, only to become increasingly obsessed with it as the days wore on.
Master’s Ashes feature folks who’ve been around the punk rock block more times than most, with members having served in bands like Dystopia, Voivod and Crisis (the crusty NY oddballs, not the UK post-punk ones). While mentioning the whole ex-members thing is admittedly tiresome, the pedigree is nonetheless relevant because ‘How The Mighty Have Fallen’ is definitely of a type despite being a weird, wonderful thing in its own right.
Crust, thrash, sludge and punk collide in various unholy ways, sounding like a very specific era of Neurosis (i.e. circa ‘Souls At Zero’, rather than the latterday plod everyone else has been ripping off for 25 years) one moment and tipping into sludgy, apocalyptic, anarcho-flavoured crust a la Nausea, Confrontation and Mindrot the next. Elsewhere, mangled riffing appears that somehow makes me think of bands like Ludicra, Ails and Sacrilege: it’s aggressive, atmospheric and metal-drenched, but far too slippery to be wholly one thing or another.
Amid the gloom and crackly, nihilistic samples a curdled sense of hope can occasionally be detected. It’s this, I think, that has kept on dragging me back: the desperate, dwindling belief that amid all life’s churning chaos and endless tedious bullshit there might be some tattered shreds of meaning to be found.
How The Mighty Have Fallen by Master's Ashes
https://collective-zine.co.uk/2026/10/16/masters-ashes-how-the-mighty-have-fallen-download-2026/
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