Moral Panic by Nothing But Thieves

Moral Panic, the third album from Southend-on-Sea's Nothing But Thieves, landed on 23 October 2020, three years after Broken Machine had carried them to No. 2 in the UK. Mike Crossey produced it, and Dominic Craik, the band's guitarist and keyboard player, took the producer's chair himself on five of the songs.

The lineup: Conor Mason singing and playing guitar, Joe Langridge-Brown and Craik on guitars, Philip Blake on bass and James Price on drums. It's alternative rock with a hard-rock backbone, riffs that bite down and choruses that swing for the rafters, which is why the names this band gets compared to run all the way from Muse and Royal Blood to Jeff Buckley. "Real Love Song" came from these sessions, and the story wasn't finished: a "second part", the Moral Panic II EP, followed in July 2021.

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