Built on reputable foundations of 2017 shows at Gorilla, O2 Ritz, and Head For The Hills Festival, Ist Ist release their debut EP, Spinning Rooms, as their first recorded statement beyond the confinements of a single-play or stage.
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EP REVIEW: Giant Rooks – ‘New Estate’
Off the back of an almost totally sold out European tour, German art-pop quintet Giant Rooks are set to bring their twisting contemporary indie tones to England. A year on from their last release, New Estate EP, the band will take their music on a five-date March tour, and undoubtedly exhibit its heartfelt escapism and […]
EP REVIEW: Glass Caves – ‘I Do’
Pontefract’s Glass Caves have always had an enticing quality about them, the feeling that this is a band to invest time in and take note of – a tale of longevity not flash in the pan. This understanding has never worn away, in fact it has just matured, comparably as have the band’s musical efforts. […]
EP REVIEW: Reuben Koops – ‘Higher Ground’
The last time we heard from soulful troubadour Reuben Koops, he was flying high off the back of a successful debut album, and the ‘Slate EP‘ which followed further cemented Koops as a promising artist. Assuring personal truths and emotional sincerity, his songs are tinged with sunny euphoric tones and are given equal luminosity through crooning folk-pop […]
EP REVIEW: Will Whisson – ‘Nowhere Bound’
It’s always admirable when songwriters push themselves to extremes when making records, such as Bon Iver who retreated to a cabin in the woods when recording their debut album, or Will Varley, whose second album was inspired by a walking tour of the UK. Will Whisson is no stranger to this; living in a campervan […]
EP REVIEW: Young Earth – ‘Frequency Illusion’
The debut EP – ‘Frequency Illusion’ – from Ireland’s Young Earth is released on November 7th, with its lead single dropping on Halloween. Despite the spooky release date, there is nothing spooky about these electric guitar led tracks. Bringing to mind sounds of The Kooks, and reminiscent of Oasis if the Gallaghers were happier people, […]
EP REVIEW: Sophie Morgan – ‘Annie’
Sophie Morgan brings alt-folk tunes together with an insight which will surprise you – shimmering emotional resonance with an intense melodic quality.
EP REVIEW: Hannah Nicholson – ‘Breath’
Hannah Nicholson’s debut EP ‘Breath’ is a meditation on the deeper stages of growing, the personal process of finding one’s place in the world and exploring the roots of human love.
EP REVIEW: Genevieve Dawson – ‘Things My Mother Tells Me’
Genevieve Dawson’s debut EP ‘Things My Mother Tells Me’ – released 28 August – incorporates the personal poeticism often associated with the folk genre, but refreshingly throws off any kind of restraint. The first track title ‘I am on Something’ highlights this, pulling on pop culture and suggestive in its symbolism to show that Dawson does not shy […]
EP REVIEW: Martin Kelly – ‘Fine Love’
A musician’s career can take varying routes and roads across a lifetime. Case in point: Martin Kelly. For his career in music, only started to bloom once he moved continents and joined with his musical brother in arms, James Edan, for a musical project that would take them to heady heights. Beginning their Martin and […]
EP REVIEW: Junior Empire – ‘Junior Empire’
London group Junior Empire prime their candidacy as centurions of the all-night rave with the release of their first full body of work. A collection which flaunts eclectic contemporary influences against a brilliant audacity for breaking any and all genre rules, the five-piece effort, thus, is the perfect introduction to this exciting new band.
EP REVIEW: Idle Crooks & Englishmen – ‘I Feel Like You Should Be More Dangerous’
Brighton-based noise makers Idle Crooks & Englishmen share a preview of their forthcoming EP ‘I Feel Like You Should Be More Dangerous’ today (listen here). The riff heavy blues punk outfit effortlessly mix genres – helped along by the distinct and present vocals of guitarist/vocalist Tom Hurn. That isn’t to say that the guitar or drums […]
EP REVIEW: Meadowlark – ‘Nocturnes’
After years of writing in various cottages dotted around the UK, where the two would go so they could be free from distractions and able to focus solely on songwriting, the Bristol based duo Meadowlark have treated us to the release of their new EP ‘Nocturnes’.
EP REVIEW: Lindi Ortega – ‘Til The Goin’ Gets Gone’
Lindi Ortega’s forthcoming EP ‘Til The Goin’ Gets Gone’ – available worldwide March 17, 2017 – is a visitation of American pasts, pulled into the present and made personable through sparse, scaled down production and seeping soprano. It tells us the importance of voices in our history as well as the here-and-now; especially evocative considering […]
EP REVIEW: Honey Lung – ‘Kind of Alone’
Only 90’s kids remember the last tides of Thatcherism razing the country to the ground, and the nervous cultural climate that gave way to Size Zero and the corporatisation of club culture, but at least there were banging rock tunes.
EP REVIEW: Sunstack Jones – ‘Days Stand Still’
Sunstack Jones sound like summer, even when listening in winter- and I like them for it. Their sound strings together the positive power of a number of genres; I hear bits of beach, elements of shoegaze, twangs of country, pieces of jangle pop – and it comes together with a rewarding warmth.
EP REVIEW: Hannah Ashcroft – ‘The Quiet Kind’
‘The Quiet Kind’ from Hannah Ashcroft offers so much more than the title suggests – it is the opportunity to journey through sound.
EP PREMIERE: Fuoco – ‘Kape Kinevil’
Brighton-via-Margate twosome Fuoco incite invigorating chaos with EP ‘Kape Kinevil’, exclusively streaming below. The lucid nightmare slash dream cacophony slash sludge party begins as it means to go on: spiked with a wicked sense of humour, shaking out knee-deep canyon grooves alongside riffs that bow down to something holy.
EP REVIEW: Black Surf – ‘Let’s Pretend It’s Summer’
A couple of weeks ago marked the 20 year anniversary of the release of Weezer‘s sophomore album ‘Pinkerton’, an occasion that was remarked on widely in the indie-music-press, and with good reason. Whilst the album seems to have been personally labelled as an unwanted milestone around the neck of the at-the-time fame-beleaguered frontman Rivers Cuomo, […]
EP REVIEW: Whistlejacket – ‘Oh Brother’
South-East London’s most prominent pedallers of psych-punk-shoegaze Whistlejacket have just dropped their second EP ‘Oh Brother’ and by gosh it’s something for your ears to behold. Slacklining the void between those in the Tame Impala or Tuska school, and the lo-fi stylings of My Bloody Valentine or Yuck, Whistlejacket ooze scuzz’n’fuzz from every pore.