Rating: What better way is there to cut through the gloomy veil of wintertime than the scintillating psych-folk sounds of Cristobal and The Sea? If your answer is: fog lights, you frankly underestimate the power of the quartet’s expansive exoticism….
Lets fire up our musical DeLorean Time Machine and go back a little. To a time before The Shins’ ‘Oh, Inverted World’ landed and its glistening opening salvo ‘Caring Is Creepy’ established them as the indie darlings they are today;…
Rating: With its outstanding bill of localised and enduring international talent, the 10th edition of Liverpool Music Week has certainly generated a lot of buzz this time around. Last Thursday night we headed to the O2 Academy, to revel in…
Rating: My first encounter with Sivu was fairly up close and personal. I, like over half a million others, watched the artist perform whilst inside an MRI scanner, the beautifully bleak ‘Better Man Than He’. So, what were our first…
Rating: Liverpool. It’s a bustling metropolis, known worldwide for its rich musical heritage. However, before the groundbreaking days of the Cavern Club, there lay another mystical underground hollow. Buried deep beneath the city streets, under the passing feet of oblivious…
Rating: Adam Bainbridge, aka Kindness, has returned with his second album Otherness, and he’s set to bring a new spin, scholarly swing and sass to pop music as we know it. The chic chillwave and expansive ’80s pop air of Bainbridge’s debut,…
Rating: Vashti Bunyan’s nomadic wayfaring has taken her to some extraordinary places. ‘Heartleap’ her third and final album, is the sound of an artist discovering their musical homeland after forty-four years of personal pursuit. A recluse by nature, the songwriter’s…
Rating: Well, we might just have an Indian summer on our hands if the Allah-Las have got anything to do with it. Psychedelic purists, Miles Michaud, Pedrum Siadatian, Spencer Dunham and Matthew Correia are back with eagerly anticipated L.P number…