Single Review – VINYL FANTASY REVIEWS

SINGLE REVIEW: Syntara – The Mind’s Descent

Closing out 2025’s single reviews is the bristling double-single of Merseyside sci-fi concept metalcore outfit Syntara.

Soulful songstress Blue Jean ensures that your Song of the Year lists need to be redrafted with this incredible work of art.

Not content with going quietly into 2026, Labyrinthine Oceans offer one final sweeping single to see out the year.

The latest single of West Yorkshire songstress Eva Kiss is a dramatic reinterpretation of grunge ideas.

The Marigolds are back and more ferocious than ever, with their brilliant and slightly ridiculous new rager.

Iguanas On The Floor offer some superstitiously good funk rock on this swaggering new single.

Vienna take a look at making difficult decisions and keeping the faith on this phenomenal emo number.

Sharpened.Lives hold tight to hope in a hopeless world on this heartfelt alternative rock anthem.

Orlando’s Landon Noland gives a darkly beautiful look into the world of his debut record with new single ‘Zealot’.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s finest grunge-gaze export return to muse on the death of humanity in the age of technology.