Reviews

No Cities To Love is technically my first Sleater-Kinney album, not counting their 1994 debut that I listened to a few months ago. It’s not out of blatant ignorance. Like everyone, I’ve got those bands […]

This is The Waterboys 11th album in a 30-ish year career, they have been through big music to irish jiggery pokery (and loads of fiddly diddlyness). For this album Mike Scott decamped to Nashville, the […]

The White Raven, a Swedish band hailing from Helsingborg in the southern parts of the country, had a great debut run last year with national airplay, blog hype and over 400 000+ streams total on […]

Romance isn’t dead, but it’s on rocky ground as singer-songwriter Gruff Rhys detours from his American Interior odyssey to join fellow Super Furry Animal, Dafydd Ieuan in The Earth’s three-minute, synth-laden ‘love’ song. The soaring […]

Recently, Noah Lennox a.k.a. Panda Bear gave an interview to The Quietus where he talked about his favorite thirteen albums. They ranged from the ‘Enter The Wu Tang’ to King Tubby’s ‘Roots Of Dub’ to […]

The much anticipated seventh release by The Decemberists entitled What a Terrible World What a Beautiful World comes out on January 20. In the run up to the event, the band has released the fourth track […]

Mark Ronson renowned and prolific producer has released his fourth “Solo” release Uptown Special The first single Uptown Funk has already hit number one in both the UK and America charts. Ronson is perhaps better known […]

The New Southern Electrikk are a Manchester based band who have a smoldering under the surface post-punk feel about them but it’s hard to pin these guys down to any label and that’s no bad […]

If you’ve spent any time listening to indie/alternative radio in the past couple of months you’ve heard Catfish and the Bottlemen’s single Kathleen.  Kathleen is the impressive first single off their debut full-length LP The […]

Sam Genders former front man for Tunng, and The Accidental is releasing his third Diagrams album Chromatics. The experimental folk, psychedelic pop rock wizard’s sound has been compared to Bon Iver, Snow Patrol, Robyn Hitchcock […]

Modest Mouse fans have had a long agonizing wait for new material. It has been almost 8 years since the breathtaking We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank was released in 2007. The agony looks […]

“Tales of otherworldly wisdom set within ‘glacial lullaby-blues’. Words that carry the weight of the world and melody that creeps far beneath the skin makes for a stop-you-in-your-tracks debut on James Skelly’s Skeleton Key Records.” […]

A band with a name like Viet Cong could have gone all so wrong. Artwork devoid of colour, their name taken from a place in time many people still aren’t comfortable discussing, in most cases […]

With the modern psych scene, the sound of the 60’s is enjoying a bit of resurgence again. However, the masters and trailblazers of the last renaissance in the early 90’s was certainly the indie groove […]

London based Archive return with their 10th album Restriction, produced by longtime collaborator Jerome Devoise. Encompassing mainstay duo Darius Keeler and Dan Griffiths with four vocalists and a multitude of songwriters Archive have been on a […]

SOAK is 18 year old Irish singer song-writer Bridie Monds-Watson from Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Bridie has been nominated by HMV and the BBC as One to watch for 2015. ‘B a noBody’ is her first […]

I have to start this review with a confession – I’ve never quite got Belle and Sebastian. They’ve had moments of indisputable genius in the past but I’ve never found myself fully gripped by one […]

The Gravity Drive is a prime example showing that the music distribution world has seismically shifted and we are in” Kansas” no longer.  Even 10 years ago it would have been difficult to imagine a […]