Bristol-based musician George Glew has set an ambitious target – planning to release a new track each month, every month for the next year. The second instalment, a song dedicated to his familial roots, has just been released – ‘Me and My Brother’ is a soulful folk-rock number that tells of relationship strain and undying […]
Pulled downwards by a voice somewhere between Dylan and Springsteen (courtesy of singer Adam Granduciel), we sink slowly into the swirling cauldron of sulkiness that is the upcoming album and major label debut from The War On Drugs – ‘A Deeper Understanding’. Switching between apathy and angst, the album’s a lethargic, daydreaming teenager with a body […]
Yucatan Records is a charming independent label and artist management company with a meagre five artists to its name. Their biggest success story so far are Matthew and The Atlas, who they have developed into a touring act with very competitive draw over Europe. Subsequent expansion has seen the inclusion of avant-garde-istas Wovoka Gentle, Latin-inspired […]
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 […]
London three-piece Arctic Lake make a sublime return with the first single off their forthcoming project.
Reputation unblemished, the soaring expectations set by Larkins for their homecoming live show – after a heavy summer of festivals and tours of Germany, and the UK – are at rocket level.
There is a moment right at the end of Warm Healer, the closing track from Everything Everything’s third album ‘Get To Heaven,’ where suddenly, the lights dim. “You don’t want me sucking you down”, intones frontman Jonathan Higgs as an ominously pulsing bassline does exactly that, his disembodied, pitch-shifted voice warped and shrouded by atrophying […]
As summer starts drawing to an end, the days get shorter, everything seems move faster and faster towards the end of the year. Not long are the nights spent wrapped in duvets and blankets binge watching the next season of whatever trash reality show tickles the masses fancy, ordering fast food and wearing ‘athletic wear’ […]
Real life can be all-the-more inspiring when you choose to live it – there’s a secret to be discovered in the synergy of forces that lie outside our own lifeblood. We see, we observe; we touch, we feel; we learn, we grow. The music of Vivienne Chi is engaged in an outer-existence, of a fiery […]
A doorway to heaven creeps open with thundering force in Toothpaste’s debut single, ‘TV Years’.
For me, a lot of folk tends to wash over me – too often technically competent vocals and guitar work are deemed enough to qualify a song as a ‘success’, when really it’s the ability to make one feel something. Luckily, Marvin Powell’s new single ‘Wind Before the Train’ does just that – not necessarily […]
The six-piece Australian outfit released their debut album, ‘So Long and Thank You’ on 4th August 2017 – for some, the release may have gone unnoticed, whilst for the select bunch aware of the matter, the occasion proved to be a monumental victory lap.
After the successful album release and UK tour Amber Run encountered earlier on in the year, the band don’t seem too eager to sit back and relax just yet. Recently treating us to the exciting news of another UK tour (starting in Bournemouth on 29th September) which will roll out into an extensive further spate […]
The Travelling Band are a Manchester five-piece who greet you in traditional Mancunian style – a strong, warm intro is instinctively satisfying and applies well to the start of their latest track ‘Last Night (I Dreamt of Killing You)’, which begins in one ear and quickly blossoms outwards through the use of jangly guitar and […]
As the third release from Newcastle’s Dome Hall this year, ‘Sugarray’ continues an impeccable record of writing original and versatile musical works. The new cut occupies another untraveled space; dancing at a slow to mid range tempo, its cradle-song temperament is given full tenure to consume a dreamy sway of part-twilight romance, part-nostalgic melancholy. It’s […]
While this year’s Bestival has shifted location from the Isle of Wight, some things never change and 2017’s lineup looks as good as ever. So let’s dive into the creative and colourful world of the award-winning festival to highlight some of the moments we’re most excited about.
The latest single from Brighton quartet Thyla is a woozy escape of ambience, facilitating semi-conscious submission to a world of glossy guitar-work and hard-hitting stick-slams. It’s a ‘Pristine Dream’, you might say.
Johnny Kills’ latest release ‘My Shirt Guy Is High’ continues their trend of creating direct, tongue-in-cheek fuzzy rock music. It’s a wink and a nudge of a song, perfectly self-aware and standing proudly like a filthy toddler beaming at its mother. And just like a mother and her child, it’s hard not to feel endeared […]
On a warm summer evening in early July, I met Jamie Cameron, the vision behind The Last Dinosaur, in a shabby old East End boozer near Bethnal Green. I had reviewed Jamie’s magnum opus ‘The Nothing’ previously; he had enjoyed the review and asked if I’d consider writing a more involved and personal piece. We […]
Elle Mary & The Bad Men share a vibrant dose of grungy folk-noir on new single ‘Behave,‘ ushering ever closer the rewards of their forthcoming debut album, ‘Constant Unfailing Night’.