Sheepy is the performing moniker of Liverpool’s Luke Jones and his talented band who specialise in easy to fall for 3 minute pop tracks. Their new single ‘Home’ is no different and, accompanied by its feelgood video, is a refreshing change…
Rating: Musically, the world in 2016 is a strange unforgiving place with weekly cultural losses and a feeling of protest and anger rising. Sometimes what you need is some uncomplicated escapism. Almost two years to the day that JPNGRLS released…
Rating: This third release from Brooklyn’s Augustines is a change of pace from their rather frantic and emotional past. Renowned for an intense live experience and fronted by a captivating narrator in Billy McCarthy, Augustines produced one of the albums…
Rating: In a year struggling to produce too many memorable moments from the guitar camp, Chicago band Whitney have delivered an impressive and immersive debut record. Flying somewhere close to the radar for most of 2016 and with their two singles…
Rating: On the face of it the much vaunted Virgin Kids debut is a straight forward garage rock album. An introductory long(ish) player that sells itself on the promise of lose yourself live shows and bright futures, that these curious…
Rating: After 13 years of mutual affection RNDM finally got in the studio and released their debut in 2012, and 4 years later comes an album that makes a mockery of the feared second album cliché. With a founding member…
Rating: In a world that preaches constant evolution from its artists, producers and technicians, there is something remarkably pleasurable in hearing a rock band doing the basics well. Listening to Never Hill is an instantly enjoyable listen, even if at…
Rating: The always excellent Hare and Hounds in the Kings Heath region of Birmingham has a well deserved reputation for showcasing shiny new bands, and it seems particularly tuned into those offering a more interesting and quirky edge. Judging by…
Rating: Many of their contemporaries choose to hang on to the music that brought them to the public attention, and it ends up being a rather limp revision of a once brave new world. The Enemy, however, have openly admitted…
Rating: Sticky Blood – the Sheffield based partnership of one time Arctic Monkey Andy Nicholson and Jamie Shield – have started forging a reputation since they started working together last year, no doubt helped by working alongside artists such as George The…