ALBUM REVIEW: Low Island – If You Could Have It All Again

April 13, 2021 Kieran Brennan 0

Low Island deliver well-realized electronic music accompanied by haunting beautiful melodies on their latest album If You Could Have It All Again. The music is ambient, well-produced by Jamie Jay and intricately dense with some […]

BOOK REVIEW: Bob Dylan – No Direction Home (Revised illustrated edition) By Robert Shelton

April 9, 2021 Michael Barron 0

Initially proposed by the author in 1965 and finally released in 1986, an expanded edition followed in 2011 for Dylan’s 70th birthday. An expanded hardback illustrated edition with 150 images “aimed at a younger audience” […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Raf Rundell – O.M. Days

April 7, 2021 Lee Campbell 0

Londoner Raf Rundell’s colourful, musical optimism cleverly fuses funk, indie-pop, soul and electronica in his latest project. Looking at the cover of his second solo LP – O.M. Days – it is unusual and intriguing. […]

EP REVIEW: Daniel Blake – Jakarta

April 7, 2021 Randall Radic 0

A few days ago, Los Angeles-based indie-pop singer-songwriter Daniel Blake released a new EP, Jakarta, five tracks revolving around the heartbreak concept. Gorgeously wrought, Jakarta includes the musical gifts of Bill Lefler (drums, piano, synth), […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Form – This World is Ours

April 2, 2021 Chris Snoddon 0

Multi-National Synth trio ‘Form’ emerged onto the music scene in 2018 with their debut album Defiance + Entropy. The threesome consisting of Keith Trigwell (England), Mark Bebb (Wales) and Rob Dust (Germany) are back with […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Tiny Magnetic Pets – Blue Wave

April 2, 2021 Amanda Stock 0

There has been a retro revival of early ‘80s electronic music over the last ten years or so with a constant conveyor belt of new artists eager to create the analogue sounds of synth pioneers […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Tune Yards – Sketchy

March 24, 2021 David Ham 0

Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner are the duo better known as Tune-Yards, and their excellent fifth album, released by 4AD, is called Sketchy. The 11 songs have been inspired by the Beastie Boys, Book and […]

ALBUM REVIEW: The Antlers – Green to Gold

March 23, 2021 Michael Barron 0

In 2000, Oasis released the single “Sunday Morning Call”, seven years earlier in 1993, Oasis’ brit-pop rivals Blur released “Sunday Sunday”. The Antlers singer and primary songwriter Peter Silberman decided to do something bolder with […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Evanescence – The Bitter Truth

March 22, 2021 Sonja Sleator 0

The Bitter Truth is an album that Evanescence fans have been waiting on for almost a decade, and it doesn’t disappoint. The album was planned to be released in late 2020 but due to the […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Jack Symes – Tompkins Park

March 22, 2021 Randall Radic 0

Folk singer-songwriter Jack Symes has a knack for taking the commonplace and imbuing it with significance. He discovers meaning in fragments of life most people overlook and gives those splinters of time relevance. On his […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Bell Orchestre – House Music

March 15, 2021 Kieran Brennan 0

In Bell Orchestre’s first release in over a decade, they dabble with classical and electronic music in one improvisational session on their latest album, House Music. Sonically it’s an accomplished work; however, the instrumentation sometimes […]

ALBUM REVIEW: New Pagans – The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots and All

March 14, 2021 Lee Campbell 0

Belfast’s New Pagans bombastic debut delivers a rich, gothic tapestry of intelligent, indie-rock energy. It’s been just over twelve months since the release of the Glacial Erratic EP by New Pagans. That project was unleashed […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark

March 4, 2021 Kieran Brennan 0

16 years after their last album, Arab Strap delves back into the late-night debauchery, sexual honesty and grim humour Aidan Moffet had drawled about since their emergence in the ’90s. Moffet once again lays bare […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Ricky Warwick – When Life Was Hard And Fast

March 4, 2021 Daniel Lynch 0

When an artist who is best known as a member of a band releases a solo album, that album is often held up to a standard of having to justify its existence as something separate […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Kings Of Leon – When You See Yourself

March 3, 2021 Michael Barron 0

Despite emerging on the music scene in the early 2000s in hippy style dress with a strong Nashville sound to their rock style, it was the Brit’s who first embraced the Followills, not the Americans. […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Bradford – Bright Hours

March 2, 2021 Ben P Scott 0

“Like water through cracks, we creep and trickle-down”, sings Ian Hodgson on the opening track to the first Bradford album in over 30 years, very much summing up the underrated and “could’ve been” status of […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Jules Maxwell – Nocturnes

March 1, 2021 Amanda Stock 0

The intriguing but relatively unknown music career of composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jules Maxwell has been diverse, to say the least, and began in rather unlikely circumstances. Although he studied music at school, it was […]

BOOK REVIEW: Tenacious D – Post Apocalypto

February 26, 2021 Michael Barron 0

Festooned with copious cartoon dicks and nudity, where full anatomies are exposed where even the robot has a fully functioning “pussy”,; one would hardly think that Post Apocalypto would contain an Aesop style fable. Nonetheless, […]

ALBUM REVIEW: Lydia Luce – Dark River

February 23, 2021 Randall Radic 0

Once you spend any time delving into Lycia Luce’s life, you realize she was predestined to make music. However, you begin to wonder if her musical outpourings would be different if she hadn’t been raised […]

ALBUM REVIEW: The Fall – Live at St. Helens Technical College, ’81

February 20, 2021 Kieran Brennan 0

Marking 40 years since a gig in St. Helen’s technical college, this newly discovered bootleg of the performance screams through your ears as proof that The Fall are more relevant than ever. Discovered by chance […]

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