Two can play that game

Just over three months after the release of the Twisted By Design compilation This Town Ain't Big Enough For The 22 Of Us comes another collection of cuts from some of Cardiff's finest.

Available gratis with Cardiff University student newspaper Gair Rhydd on the occasion of the 50th issue of its fortnightly magazine supplement Quench, Quench's Local Mixtape features several of the bands that made it onto the earlier compilation: The Spencer McGarry Season, Los Campesinos!, The Loves, Gindrinker, Little My, Sweet Baboo, Horby Pylons and The Wave Pictures. But also represented here are some of the city's bigger hitters (The Victorian English Gentlemens Club, Space In The 50s) - and the range of genres is broader, from indie-folk (Gethin Pearson And The Scenery) to stoner metal (Bomb The Sun) and gibbering techno (Drone).

The overall impression is much the same, though: there are very definitely lots of good things afoot here...

The 50th issue, which is downloadable as a PDF, includes interviews with Rik Mayall and Mark Watson, a live review of DARTZ! (wise words, Mr Jones) and Gindrinker's DC Gates reprising his old column: "What the hell kind of a name was Quench anyway? Sounded like a vaginal douche or a fabric conditioner"...