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    I Don't Think I Can Do This Anymore is more of the same from the Canterbury based four piece Moose Blood, but at this stage that can only be a good thing. It's a great thing, in fact. The earnest, happy/sad and often heartbreaking brand of emo/pop punk that they bring to the table feels incredibly fresh, if not exactly completely original. Only time will tell if their sound begins to sound worn out or weary, but as of now I Don't Think I Can Do This Anymore is the most accomplished album Moose Blood have released so far.     For the casual listener wanting to know what emo can be, there are worse places to start than here (or the band's two earlier albums I'll Keep You In Mind, From Time To Time and Blush ). This isn't emo like it was in the 2000s, mind you - My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy have barely an inch of direct influence on Moose Blood's sound - this is what emo sounds like in 2018. It's tired, reflective and often painfully honest. T

   Camp Cope smash it out of the park once again on their second go around,  How To Socialise & Make Friends . Singer/guitarist Georgia Maq, drummer Sarah Thompson and bassist Kelly-Dawn Helmrich use their instantly recognisable folk/punk sound to charge head-on into some of the most incendiary issues in music today, most notably "The Opener", which is a scathing appraisal of "equality" in music. Music aside, the honesty and bravery of this album is to be commended, and it seems like the perfect time for this album to be added to the collective conscience of the music scene. "The Face Of God" is a harrowing look at sexual abuse at the hands of another musician, and the subsequent doubt coming from the fact that "you don't seem like that kind of guy". Every song is chockers with relevant and startlingly strong stories, and when it culminates in "I've Got You", an emotional tribute to Georgia Maq's late father, while you