Amanda Stock

Amanda is passionate for electronic music and in particular her devotion to Depeche Mode, a band that has remained a constant throughout her life since she saw them for the first time at Hammersmith Odeon in 1983, aged 15. Amanda contributes to album reviews mostly but has also written several “introducing” type features. Amanda loves discovering and writing about new music. Fave band : Depeche Mode Fave album: Violator
ALBUM REVIEW: Tara Nome Doyle – Værmin

ALBUM REVIEW: Tara Nome Doyle – Værmin

Tara Nome Doyle is a 24-year old singer-songwriter with Norwegian-Irish roots. In April 2018, she released her first single, the…

2 years ago

EP REVIEW: Polly Scattergood – In The Absence Of Light

In The Absence of Light is the new EP from singer/songwriter musician Polly Scattergood and follows on from her long-awaited…

3 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell – Burn

Dead Can Dance members Lisa Gerrard and Jules Maxwell have teamed up under a new guise with James Chapman (MAPS)…

3 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Tiny Magnetic Pets – Blue Wave

There has been a retro revival of early ‘80s electronic music over the last ten years or so with a…

3 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Jules Maxwell – Nocturnes

The intriguing but relatively unknown music career of composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jules Maxwell has been diverse, to say the…

3 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Puma Blue – In Praise Of Shadows

Puma Blue is 25-year-old South Londoner, singer/songwriter Jacob Allen. He once described his moniker as an “imagined character who is…

3 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Laura Carbone – Live At Rockpalast

Berlin-based artist Laura Carbone has been creating a great deal of buzz in music circles since the release of her…

3 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Vita and the Woolf – Anna Ohio

Philadelphia born Vita and the Woolf is singer-songwriter, musician and producer Jennifer Pague. When Pague initially started the synth-pop/ indie…

4 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Polly Scattergood – In This Moment

Electronic artist Polly Scattergood returns with her fourth studio album, In This Moment on 3rd July 2020. It’s an eagerly…

4 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Empathy Test – Monsters

Since Empathy Test's conception in January 2013, the London-based synth-pop act have been fiercely independent and brave in both self-producing…

4 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Roger O’Donnell – 2 Ravens

Keyboardist and composer Roger O’Donnell has spent over 40 years on stage with bands like Psychedelic Furs, The Thompson Twins…

4 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: La Roux – Supervision

After a six-year absence since her second album “Trouble In Paradise” La Roux is back with a new record -…

4 years ago

VIDEO PREMIERE: J.Fla – ‘Starlight’ – Watch Now

With over 4.5 billion views and 13.3 million subscribers on YouTube, 2 billion streams globally and 50 million total plays…

4 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Cigarettes After Sex – Cry

If ever a band’s sound is matched so perfectly to the name of the band itself, it’s this one. Cigarettes…

5 years ago

VIDEO PREMIERE: Chorus Grant – ‘No Word for the Word’ – Watch Now

XS Noize today premieres a music video for “No Word For The Word” from rising folk-act Chorus Grant (a.k.a.Danish singer/songwriter…

5 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Alessandro Cortini – Volume Massimo

Alessandro Cortini is an Italian musician, best known for being the keyboard player in the touring line up of American…

5 years ago

TRACK OF THE DAY – Cardiochaos – ‘Brother of Sleep’

Cardiochaos is the solo electro-alternative pop music project of Viennese musician and filmmaker, Peter Brunner. Brunner suffers from extrasystoles that…

5 years ago

REVIEW: Permafrost – ‘Permafrost EP’

If you are a fan of the sinister menace of Interpol, the jagged guitar lines of Gang Of Four or…

5 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Maps – ‘Colour. Reflect. Time. Loss’

Mercury-nominated Northampton composer/producer Maps (James Chapman) releases his highly-anticipated fourth album ‘Colours. Reflect. Time. Loss.’ on the 10th May 2019…

5 years ago

ALBUM REVIEW: Lydia Ainsworth – ‘Phantom Forest’

Art-pop experimentalist Lydia Ainsworth returns with her self-produced album “Phantom Forest” on May 10th. Ainsworth’s third album introduces a lush,…

5 years ago