The worst person to deliver bad news helped create it. Lyons Lane makes that ugly truth the calling card for “You’ll Talk About It!”, its debut EP. The Detroit five-piece places love, loss, obsession and ego at the record’s centre, but opener “Don’t Shoot The Messenger” gives those ideas a proper complication: a man tells another man that his girlfriend cheated on him, yet he...

A third guitarist changes a band’s angle. Santa Claws put that fact at the centre of "Sands Of Time". The Brittany five-piece return with a self-produced second album. Crunchy guitars, close arrangements and rich analogue texture fill its frame. It draws on 1990s rock energy. However, the current lineup brings a clear point of view. This "Sands Of Time" album review starts with the expanded formation:...