First Impressions

Friends! First Impressions is back once again to brighten up your Friday morning! This week, we're talking about Slipknot's "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)" and general Slipknot related musings, as well as Avenged Sevenfold's self-titled effort "Avenged Sevenfold". There's some brief musings on the news over the past week or so, we talk live music in Leeds and Rick tells us about his trip to the big NYC! We're back in TWO WEEKS TIME on our new bimonthly schedule! See you then and thanks for listening! Recommendations • Discordian - www.facebook.com/DiscordianBand • Romy Gregory Photography - www.romyo.co • Romy: Girls (again), Bojack Horseman (again), Sigma lenses, Chorus.fm's In the Spotlight: 50 Bands You Need To Hear feature: https://chorus.fm/features/articles/in-the-spotlight-50-bands-you-need-to-hear-part-one/ • Rick: Skyrim and Skyrim mods, Outlast II (if you’re not a wimp like me), Guardians of the Galaxy 2, NEW YORK, escape rooms, BROADWAY - Phantom OT Opera, Avenue Q You can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. Apple Podcasts - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, our Facebook (www.facebook.com/podcastfirstimpressions/), Soundcloud or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next episode's albums: Foo Fighter's "The Color and the Shape" vs. Celldweller's "End of an Empire"

It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday… now you’ve been reminded of Rebecca Black’s “masterpiece”, perhaps you need to cleanse your ears with the soothing sounds of the First Impressions podcast?! We’re back once again, this week discussing Jackson Browne’s “Looking East” and the Hold Steady’s “Boys and Girls in America", amongst other musical goings on, and perhaps a tad too much politics... not to mention a whole five minutes dedicated to FUNNY TWEETS! We're back in TWO WEEKS TIME on our new bimonthly schedule! See you then and thanks for listening! Recommendations • REGISTER TO VOTE: https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote • Discordian - www.facebook.com/DiscordianBand • Romy Gregory Photography - www.romyo.co • Romy: The Maine’s new album “Lovely Little Lonely”, Girls, Glencadam Whisky/Distillery & Kingsbarns Distillery, Sing Street & Bunheads. • Rick: http://e.infogr.am/stop_the_tories-0?src=embed TACTICAL VOTING DECISIONS, Prometheus - fuk tha hate. Chuggaboom sound funny. Markiplier! Barbecues and ROBOT WARS AGAIN AAAAH Buzzfeed article: https://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/general-election-tweets-thatll-make-you-laugh-despite-it?utm_term=.lc7MwpKv6#.ocnoWlMLN You can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. Apple Podcasts - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, our Facebook (www.facebook.com/podcastfirstimpressions/), Soundcloud or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next episode's albums: Slipknot's "Volume Three (The Subliminal Verses)" vs. Avenged Sevenfold's "Avenged Sevenfold"

Ahoy sailors, its First Impression Friday! We're back once again, this week to talk about the excellent Opeth and Noah Gundersen. We discuss Opeth's Ghost Reveries (in great detail!) and Noah Gundersen's Carry The Ghost, making this a very ghoulish week! We also talk music news, a variety of gigs we've been to lately amongst other digressions (as usual). We're back in TWO WEEKS TIME on our new bimonthly schedule! See you then and thanks for listening! Recommendations • Discordian - https://www.facebook.com/DiscordianBand • Romy Gregory Photography - https://www.romyo.co • Rick: Everything (game), Tokyo Ghoul (just started and it’s awesome), ROBOT WARS, unleashing your inner prog demon, Rick and Morty and (tangentially, because one of the characters in the latest ep was voiced by Nathan Fillion) FIREFLY • Romy: Girls’ final season - Episode 8 (What Will We Do This Time About Adam?) in particular is awesome, Rick and Morty, Bleachers (Don’t Take The Money) new song is fun, Creeper’s Eternity, In Your Arms is also fun. Playing For Tips article - https://www.wsj.com/articles/live-streaming-music-to-fans-on-smartphones-is-a-pretty-good-gig-1490443203 You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/podcastfirstimpressions/), Soundcloud or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next episode's albums: Jackson Browne's "Looking East" vs. The Hold Steady's "Boys and Girls in America"

Welcome back! As promised, we've only left it two weeks between episodes this time! We're here this week with two very different albums from the wonderful Frank Turner and System of a Down. We discuss moarrr festival line ups (surprise, surprise!) and the various live shows we've been to over the past two weeks. Hope you have all the fun listening! We're back in TWO WEEKS TIME on our new bimonthly schedule! See you then and thanks for listening! Recommendations • Discordian - https://www.facebook.com/DiscordianBand • Romy Gregory Photography - https://www.romyo.co • Rick: One (EP release by Rhys from Discordian. It’s well sexy),Buffy, Subnautica, Dark Souls and gitting gud at Dark Souls • Romy: Blink 182’s Parking Lot, Craig Finn’s God In Chicago, Wax Bar in Leeds, You’re The Worst You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/podcastfirstimpressions/), Soundcloud or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next episode's albums: Noah Gundersen's "Carry The Ghost" & Opeth's "Ghost Reveries"

*Ahem* is this thing on? Welcome back and welcome to SEASON TWO! It's been a while and we apologise for the break, we're back and better than ever*! After our (very) long hiatus, we're here to talk about the albums we set each other before our break; Rise Against's Appeal to Reason & Mongol Horde's Mongol Horde. We also talk about festivals and other general nonsense, it wouldn't be First Impressions without the extended preamble! We're back in TWO WEEKS TIME on our new bimonthly schedule! See you then and thanks for listening! Recommendations • Discordian - https://www.facebook.com/DiscordianBand • Romy Gregory Photography - https://www.romyo.co • Rick: Soilwork, Community, Shudder, John Oliver, Doom & the Doom soundtrack • Romy: Manchester By The Sea, Bojack Horseman, Stranger Things, Pinegrove's Audiotree session/seeing Pinegrove live, Frank Turner's "The Sand in the Gears" & Samantha Bee's Full Frontal You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/podcastfirstimpressions/), Soundcloud or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next episode's albums: Frank Turner's "England, Keep My Bones" & System of a Down's "Hypnotize" *"Better than ever" claim not guaranteed

We have arisen from the dead... or the drowned at least. Yes, you read that right, we did not drown at Rock am Ring, it's a Christmas (sort of) miracle! We're sure you've all been very concerned about our absence, so we have a nice little update episode for you explaining our time away, as well as touching on some of the news that's happened whilst we were gone. We hope the wait will make this episode even sweeter... Recommendations • Rick: not going to Rock am Ring, BOATS, MANGO in Cologne!!!!. Reading (as in, books), honey whisky, pub quizzes, Where’s Wally, The 1975 live and Municipal Waste playing Brudenell tomorrow! • Romy: not going to Rock am Ring, showers, solitaire, seeing Billy Talent & the 1975 live, The Mountain Goats’ “The Sunset Tree”, The Weakerthans’ “Reconstruction Site”, Game of Thrones, Deftones’ song Change (In the House of Flies) Serious: • Read the Stanford Victim's letter - https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/heres-the-powerful-letter-the-stanford-victim-read-to-her-ra?utm_term=.mpdz3B9eR#.womoQqgZL • How to help the victims of the Pulse shooting - http://time.com/money/4365694/orlando-pulse-nightclub-shooting-how-to-help/ You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next week: Rise Against's "Appeal To Reason" vs. Mongol Horde's "Mongol Horde" (for realskies this time)

(Apologies for the delay in this going live, blame #DrunkRomy) Get right outta town! First Impressions is back once again to infect your earholes! This week we tackle Edguy’s Rocket Ride and Natives’ Indoor War. We’re talking serious summer tunage here people. We also go on at length about news, live shows and new releases, aren’t you lucky?! We’re taking another break next week, so we’ll see you in two weeks time (if you’re really nice to us, that is). Don’t go too loco without our luscious sounds! ;) Recommendations • Rick: Celldweller, iZombie, Robin Hobb’s “Farseer” trilogy, sunshine and strawberries • Romy: Galantis' “Pharmacy”, pop music, Bring Me The Horizon’s “That’s the Spirit”, Beach Slang’s “Broken Thrills”, Fresh Meat and New Girl Season Five You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next week’s albums: (Well, NEXT next week’s albums) Rise Against’s “Appeal To Reason” vs. Mongol Horde’s “Mongol Horde” Catch you on the flip side! RICK NOTE: Throughout this I keep referring to Edguy's album "Hellfire Club" as "Mysteria". Whilst Mysteria is one of the most awesome songs on it, the album is very much called "Hellfire Club" and I am a fool. Thanks!

Roll up kids, the First Impressions circus is back once again! This week's episode focuses on Arctic Monkey's AM and Lamb of God's VII: Sturm and Drang. Of course you'll find our usual ramblings and digressions about music news, festivals, live shows and new releases packaged in there as well, isn't that nice of us? We hope you enjoy the episode and we'll see you again in two weeks time on May 13th, don't miss us too much! Recommendations • Rick the Unquestionable: Devin Townsend’s “Synchestra” album, GAME OF THRONES, The Binding of Isaac, buying 6-string basses, getting annoying people to move out of your house. • Romy: The Hotelier’s album Goodness and their new song “Soft Animal”, Weezer’s “The White Album” again, BØRN’s album Dopamine is pretty dope, Cambridge is pretty nice, Broad City, Girls finale, Game of Thrones. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud, our twitter @impress_first or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next time's albums (May 13th): Natives' "Indoor War" vs. Edguy's "Rocket Ride"

Wahoo! We’ve hit the TEN episode mark AND we hit ONE THOUSAND total listens! Thank you so much everyone! We’ve got a super-long, super-special episode for you as a result of this. We’ve split this episode into two parts for you to make it a bit more manageable. The first part has our news, live music and new releases discussion, with the beginning of our discussion on Peter Gabriel’s Up. The second part finishes off our Peter Gabriel discussion, leading onto discussion of Green Day’s American Idiot and finally finishes off with recommendations. If you make it through both part, congratulations to you! Recommendations • Rickleback: Blue Stahli’s self-titled album (especially “Ultranumb”), Hunky Brewster’s “Cooked on Phonics” (in tandem with Green Day), Karaoke down the pub, Outlast (scare yourself silly) - more information on Outlast 2 is being released shortly, XCOM (futuristic murder chess), font wars, AND comic sans RAINBOWS ! • Romy: Catfish and the Bottlemen’s “The Balcony”, Weezer’s “The White Album” and their discography, Moose Blood’s new single “Honey”, Relient K’s new sing “Bummin’”, Parks and Recreation, and Wharf Chambers if you live in Leeds. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud, our twitter @impress_first or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next week’s albums: Arctic Monkey’s “AM” vs. Lamb of God’s “Sturm und Drang”

Wahoo! We’ve hit the TEN episode mark AND we hit ONE THOUSAND total listens! Thank you so much everyone! We’ve got a super-long, super-special episode for you as a result of this. We’ve split this episode into two parts for you to make it a bit more manageable. The first part has our news, live music and new releases discussion, with the beginning of our discussion on Peter Gabriel’s Up. The second part finishes off our Peter Gabriel discussion, leading onto discussion of Green Day’s American Idiot and finally finishes off with recommendations. If you make it through both parts, congratulations to you! Recommendations • Rickleback: Blue Stahli’s self-titled album (especially “Ultranumb”), Punky Brewster’s (aka Devin Townsend's) “Cooked on Phonics” (in tandem with Green Day), Karaoke down the pub, Outlast (scare yourself silly) - more information on Outlast 2 is being released shortly, XCOM (futuristic murder chess), font wars, AND comic sans RAINBOWS ! • Romy: Catfish and the Bottlemen’s “The Balcony”, Weezer’s “The White Album” and their discography, Moose Blood’s new single “Honey”, Relient K’s new song “Bummin’”, Parks and Recreation, and Wharf Chambers if you live in Leeds. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud, our twitter @impress_first or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next week’s albums: Arctic Monkey’s “AM” vs. Lamb of God’s “Sturm und Drang”

Ahoy sailors! All aboard this week’s episode of First Impressions where we’ve got some fantastic albums to discuss for you once again; one of which became foundational for one of us and the other for the music scene one of us resides in. Prize* to whoever guesses which is which! We also cover some other interesting topics for your enjoyment, namely the latest news (… or semi-latest), new releases, being old, politics (sorry) and nostalgia within music. Have fun with it (but not too much fun please…) Here is the crazy Brand New alternative sequencing theory - http://songmeanings.com/m/comments/view/73015821980/ Recommendations • Rick: Pendulum & In Flames’ Self vs. Self, He Took His Skin Off For Me, The Witch and Rick would also like to retroactively recommend 30 Rock. • Romy: Frightened Rabbit's “Painting of a Panic Attack”, The Last Shadow Puppets’ “Everything You’ve Come To Expect”, Modern Baseball's documentary “Tripping in the Dark”, Almost Famous, Swiss Army Man trailer and Rick Walker’s new song titled “Origami Warlords”. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud, our twitter @impress_first or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next week’s albums: Peter Gabriel’s “Up” vs. Green Day’s “American Idiot” *Your prize is a BRAND NEW EPISODE of First Impressions next week! ;)

This is not a drill, nor is it an April Fools! First Impressions returns for another episode, aren’t you lucky?! This week, we begin with Romy paying tribute to AP.net (RIP), Rick tells us about news and releases (yes, you read that right!) and we discuss when it’s acceptable to give up on an album/artist, before launching into regular album discussion. Sorry for the delay again with this one, we’re hoping that as of this week we’re going to be back into our regular Friday postings. Also, we have Twitter now! Find us @impress_first (apologies for the silly handle… all the good ones were taken). Recommendations • Rick: Listen to something new and completely out of your comfort zone! Watch Dragonball Z Abridged and listen to Judas Priest’s “British Steel” for the purpose of Rick’s very warped sense of humour. • Romy: Brian Fallon’s album “Painkillers” / The Last Shadow Puppet’s album “Everything You’ve Come to Expect” / The West Wing / The Hotelier’s new song “Piano Player” / Seeing Press to Meco live & their song “Means to an End” / Black Foxxes’ new song “Husk” You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud, our twitter @impress_first or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next week’s albums: Brand New’s “The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me” vs Warren Zevon’s “Transverse City”

We’re backkkkk! And we’ve missed you guys, so without further ado, here’s Episode Seven! We’re kicking off with a bit of news, Romy rambles about the Hotelier (no surprises here), we briefly touch on lyrics and what we like about them, then we launch straight into our albums of the week. Romy apologies for her general uselessness this week; dissertation writing is hard. Have a silly picture of Rick trying to be cool and Romy trying to be Rick: http://i.imgur.com/LMeYB2j.jpg Recommendations Rick: The Royal Armouries, water taxis, seeing Machine Head live, check out Myrath’s album (because Rick is lazy and hasn’t listened to it yet) Romy: I RECOMMEND EVERYTHING. Specifically, Belgrave’s Pie & Cider Festival, getting a job, The West Wing, finishing dissertations, The Last Shadow Puppet’s Aviation (if you like indie), Echofell - INSANE, Borns - Candy EP, Foxing’s video for Night Channels andddd I’m really behind on new releases, I shall be checking out Brian Fallon, Into It. Over It. and Pinegrove. Thoughts on them next week. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next week’s albums: Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories” vs. In Flames’ “Sounds of a Playground Fading”

Happy Friday everyone! First Impressions is back once again. This week, we kick off with some news, as always, more festival line-up discussion and then delve into our albums of the week; Frightened Rabbit’s “The Midnight Organ Fight” and Dream Theater’s “Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence” (Disc Two). Expect digression, confession and loads of fun in session. Sorry for the terrible rhymes. Here are our dream festival line-ups! Romy’s - http://i.imgur.com/PNWi46X.png Rick’s - http://i.imgur.com/rpE2DPp.jpg Recommendations - Rick : Go see Sabaton live! Monkey Dust, the TV series. - Romy: Go see Enter Shikari live! Wes Anderson’s film The Royal Tenenbaums, The 1975’s “I like it when you sleep…”, The Rocket Summer’s “Zoetic” and Frank Turner’s “Least of All Young Caroline”. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ RSS Feed - http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:202378341/sounds.rss Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next week’s albums: we’re not here next week! Sorry :( we should hopefully have a short episode for you. The following week, we’ll be back with Sabaton’s “Heroes” vs. The 1975’s “I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it”

First Impressions is back once again! This week, we talk about news, Kesha vs. Dr Luke, festival lineups and then our albums of the week: The Black Album and Forget and Not Slow Down. We hope you enjoy it! Apologies for the slight sound issues (again) at the beginning of the podcast, it gets sorted 10 minutes in! To make up for this, have a photo of us (and Charlotte) being idiots at Enter Shikari - http://imgur.com/CmDGuHC Recommendations - Listen to Sahara from Forget and Not Slow Down! - Wes Anderson films! We watched Rushmore this week and it was great, as is the Life Aquatic - Rick - The Used's In Love and Death, Two Steps From Hell's Solaris (especially if you play video games) - Romy - Somos's First Day Back, The Lightning Seeds' Cloudcuckooland You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next week’s albums: Dream Theater's "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence" (Disc Two) vs. Frightened Rabbit's "The Midnight Organ Fight"

Episode Four - vs. Jack’s Mannequin’s “Everything in Transit” Another week, another episode of First Impressions. This week, we start off with some news, a quick discussion about streaming services and our most anticipated albums of the year, before moving onto discussing our two albums of the week - Machine Head’s The Blackening and Jack’s Mannequin’s Everything in Transit. We hope you enjoy! Apologies for the interference towards the beginning of the podcast, we are sorting this out! Recommendations Rick recommends Russkaja’s cover of Get Lucky and you should go see Surreal Panther! Romy recommends Relient K's new single called “Look on Up”, The Hotelier’s new song “Goodness Part 1”, Bongo’s Bingo because of fun, and Spotlight is gr8 You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next week’s albums: Metallica’s The Black Album and Relient K’s Forget and Not Slow Down

Welcome back! In this week’s episode, we tackle two favourites of ours; Devin Townsend Project’s Epicloud and Deaf Havana’s Old Souls. There is a vast amount of digression from both these albums, as usual, we hope you can tolerate this and Romy’s habitual ranking blathering. Apologies for any slurring/stumbling/stuttering; this was recorded at 9am after a rather heavy night and thus our abilities to speak were slightly hindered… Recommendations - Dream Theater’s The Astonishing, Rick’s cover of Mulan, The Big Short, Arrested Development and the Raw Meat All-Dayer at Belgrave/Headrow Headrow House (including The Xcerts, God Damn, Brawlers and many more). Correction - the song Romy was talking about was Subterranean Homesick Blues, by the mighty Bob Dylan (and not Springsteen...) You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!), and is also available on Overcast, Stitcher and TuneIn. iTunes - itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/first…d1079801210?mt=2 Overcast - https://overcast.fm/itunes1079801210/first-impressions Stitcher - http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=82642&refid=stpr TuneIn - http://tunein.com/radio/First-Impressions-p831744/ Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next week’s albums: Machine Head’s The Blackening and Jack’s Mannequin’s Everything in Transit

Hello and welcome back to First Impressions. This week, we talk about Ayreon’s “Universal Migrator, Pt. I & II” & The Wonder Years’ “The Greatest Generation”, and of course, deviate off topic, talking about narrative content of albums vs. musical content and whether the length of an album can hinder your opinion of it, amongst other topics! You can now subscribe to the podcast on iTunes if you so desire (and rate/review us too if you’re feeling super generous!)by following this link https://t.co/0O5b71ekGf, and the podcast should be up on various Android podcast apps soooooon. Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud or our email, podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Next week’s albums: Devin Townsend Project’s “Epicloud” & Deaf Havana’s “Old Souls”. This is going to be a good one.

Hello and welcome to the first ever episode of First Impressions! This week, we talk about Monument’s The Amanuensis, set by the one and only Mr Rick Walker for Romy, and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’ Don’t You Fake It, set by Romy for Rick. We dive into a whole load of subjects as a result of our discussions on these albums, and only deviate off topic slightly, surprisingly. Please direct any questions/thoughts/abuse (please don’t abuse us, we’re very sensitive souls) to one of us, Soundcloud or our email (!) podcastfirstimpressions@gmail.com. Introduction music written and recorded by Rick (with a tiny bit of help from Romy) straight after we finished this episode. It’s called Five Minute Relish, because relish is more interesting than jam. Apologies for any interference/background noise/blips/the amount of times Romy says ‘erm’, this was our first time recording and hopefully we’ll have any issues sorted out next week. Next weeks albums: Ayreon’s “Universal Migrator, Pt. I & II” & The Wonder Years’ “The Greatest Generation”.