Rae Morris: Unguarded (Universal)
They say good things come to those who wait, we’re talking roughly three years of cultivating something rather wonderful, Unguarded, the debut album from Rae Morris. Filled with 12 tracks that wrap...
View ArticleK.O.G & The Zongo Brigade: Akwaaba Live EP
Fronted by energetic vocalist K.O.G, this nine-piece band fuse together west African rhythms and a combination of funk, soul, hip-hop and reggae, to inject Sheffield’s music scene with a fun, fresh,...
View ArticleHawk Eyes: Everything Is Fine
A decade on from their formation, Leeds based rockers Hawk Eyes treat us to their third album Everything Is Fine. Their debut album, Modern Bodies, arrived in 2010 and since then the band has been...
View ArticleMoon Duo, Shadows Of The Sun
Moon Duo, who are confusingly now a trio, return with their third full length studio album Shadows of the Sun after Mazes and Circles received critical acclaim. Shadows Of The Sun picks up from where...
View ArticleTurbowolf – Two Hands
“Turbowolf? Who are they?” asked a friend of mine recently. The slightly mocking tone in their voice did not escape me and I got the impression they were expecting me to tell them that this time I was...
View ArticleThomas Truax: Jetstream Sunset (Psycho Teddy Records)
Thomas Truax, the London-based musician, inventor and animator, returns to our ears with his latest album ‘Jetstream Sunset’. Born of the New York antifolk scene, Truax’s music has become synonymous...
View ArticleThey Might Be Giants – Glean
For their 17th studio album, Glean, New Yorkers They Might be Giants returned to their Dial-A-Song project, an ongoing venture that the band started in the early 1980s. Before the days of streaming and...
View ArticleParis of America – The Payroll Union
There are certain historical references – the hungry occupation of a new land, religious traditions fuelling conflict, alcoholism, prostitution and impossibly unforgiving conditions – that, to me,...
View ArticleDu Blonde – Welcome Back to Milk
It’s been a good while since Beth Jeans Houghton has produced any music and when you hear her latest release, under her new guise of Du Blonde, you will understand that this is because she has spent...
View ArticleMac Demarco – Another One
As ‘Salad Days’ was an open ended continuation of his brilliant second album ‘2’. ‘Another one’ by Mac Demarco is too an another continuation of the well loved and now trademark sound Demarco cooked up...
View ArticleLookOut: Early Cartographers
It doesn’t take a genius to realise that the sound of Early Cartographers is a bit different; the collection of instruments, the song structure and the production (it actually sounds like a Live Lounge...
View ArticleEditors – In Dream
Editors are one of those band that seems to come and go from the music scene, and this time, they’ve really brought something to the table. ‘In Dream’ is the fifth studio album from the British band...
View ArticleFold
The promo material for Fold’s debut album makes a lot of the Leeds band’s similarity to Public Service Broadcasting (there is even a quote from one of the PSB lads in it somewhere) – and why not. It’s...
View ArticleThe Disfavoured Party – Inauguration
Bristol has a history of spawning bands with a message and with The Disfavoured Party it appears to have done it again. Spreading their views on a damaged society as they see it, through the medium of...
View ArticleBen Caplan – Birds with Broken Wings
‘Birds with Broken Wings’ is the second album release from Canadian songster and beard wielder, Ben Caplan. It has been four years since his first release, ‘In the Time of the Great Remembering’, the...
View ArticleThree Trapped Tigers – Silent Earthling
Listening to their latest release – the album Silent Earthling – it’s hard to know if Three Trapped Tigers are a band or the work of a lone auteur. They’re definitely a band, a three-piece from London,...
View ArticleCreature Comfort – Echoes & Relics
Creature Comfort have a great sound. A few seconds of their music paints a lush picture of the freedom and hope of the oncoming summer. Instantly, this is a place you want to be. So, first impressions...
View ArticleEliza and the Bear – Eliza and the Bear
Your first instinct on hearing Eliza and the Bear may be to make a connection with Noah and the Whale. After all, they sound like similar propositions – [Name] and the [Animal]. Learning that Eliza and...
View ArticleShe Drew the Gun – Memories of the Future
There’s a trend surrounding us at the moment, it’s been here for five or six years; somebody starts a band – they have a drummer, guitar, bass, someone on keys, hair from a magazine and a look that’s...
View ArticleGold Panda –‘Good Luck and Do Your Best’
Everywhere you look these days there are things telling you how important it is to get away from everyday life, to lift your head up and take a step back from the grind. Escaping the routine; whether...
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