Album Reviews

Since 1999’s hit début album The Man Who, Travis have seemingly kept a pretty low profile. You may be surprised, as I was, to learn that they have released some 6 albums in the intervening […]

Errant Boy are an Edinburgh based four piece whose debut album A Wayward Mirror is released on 22 April on Errant Media. I’ve mentioned them here and on Scottish Fiction before when I reviewed their […]

Highly regarded indie musicians The Boxer Rebellion are releasing their fifth studio album, Ocean by Ocean on April 29. The meltdown that was the music industry world circa 2000 forced The Boxer Rebellion to be […]

It’s absolutely impossible to talk about Weezer without making mention of the massive impact they had with their first two albums; the first of these two had some of the brightest and catchiest songs of […]

The musical entity Matthew and the Atlas, often referred to as the British Bon Iver, are releasing Temple their second full length album on April 22, 2016. “Temple” is the follow up to their outstanding […]

London based progressive folk trio James Edge and the Mindstep release their 6 track EP On a Red Horse this week. It features their recent double A-side single Where We’re Going To / Becoming amid […]

The Joy Formidable the Welsh trio (now based in London) are back with their third album Hitch which they made in their Red Brick studio in Mold, North Wales. Fronted by Rhiannon “Ritzy” Bryan it […]

It’s rare that an album manages to entirely live up to its name. I’ve never been fully convinced by M83 as Saturdays = Youth lacked a punch and Hurry Up We’re Dreaming suffered from the […]

The ever dynamic PJ Harvey is releasing her much anticipated follow up to 2011’s Let England Shake. On April 15th her ninth full length recording The Hope Six Demolition Project arrives at the usual musical […]

Many people came to know of the Last Shadow Puppets from the early success of Alex Turner’s other band the Arctic Monkeys. While it’s always good to have some name recognition, the vibes of the […]

Scottish Experimental Rock elders, Mogwai released their 8th studio recording, Atomic on April 1st. With two decades and counting of influential music under their belts, Mogwai are among some of the most important underground artists to […]

There has been a wave of British female electro-pop in the last couple of years and relative newcomer Låpsley’s début album, Long Way Home falls firmly in this bracket. Her version however is somewhat more […]

One of Scotland’s most engaging bands, Frightened Rabbit is releasing the follow up to their breakthrough album 2013’s Pedestrian Verse. On April 8th their fifth studio album Painting of a Panic Attack drops in all […]

Does Wendy James really need any introduction? We knew her back in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the punky vixen of Transvision Vamp who had hits with I Want Your Love and Baby […]

The Pet Shop Boys, often seen as the articulate deep thinkers of British electronic Pop music return with their 13th Studio offering entitled Super on their x2 label. Super again sees the duo work with […]

Future Elevators and their self-titled debut album is the invention of Birmingham, Alabama born Michael Shackleford who was raised on music. His grandfather ran a music school in Birmingham, his uncle plays guitar for the […]

Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van der Bogaerde (yes, her real name – she is pure blue blood) A.K.A. Birdy is just 19 years old but her music CV is very impressive. She is a Musician, […]

Violent Femmes are a folk punk band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The trio reunited in 2013 and, last year, released the promising EP Happy New Year. Since then, they have been working on their first studio […]