The Amazons – 21st Century FictionThis might not be the album some fans expected, but it's arguably the one The Amazons needed to make.DORK x LIVE AT LEEDS: IN THE PARK: The Amazons: “We’re in too deep – it’s do or die”From bookshops to gun ranges, The Amazons' '21st Century Fiction' captures the dizzying contradictions of modern life through the lens of a band at a creative crossroads.The Amazons and Royal Blood have collaborated on new single ‘My Blood’The Amazons join forces with Royal Blood'...

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If its riffs you're after, The Amazons have them in spades. Great big spades. More like shovels, really. Or a digger. An entire digger full of riffs.Rising from Reading, the four-piece have been on an upwards trajectory for the last two years, gigging relentlessly around the UK in a tour van they call "Big Suze"."We've taken her everywhere," says flame-haired singer and guitarist Matt Thomson. "There's been a lot of throwing up in it. A lot of drunken nights. "We've even shut our guitarist's han...