Perhaps what’s most widely reported about Danish act Nelson Can is also the hardest to believe. Here’s a modern day indie band making a tempting mix of bass-heavy anthemic tunes, but without a lead guitar in sight. It’s all part…
The expression “the personal is the political” has never seemed more apt than on Holiday Destination, the third album from Nadine Shah. Where Shah’s previous albums, Love Your Dum and Mad and Fast Food dealt with broken-down relationships, suicide and…
British indiepop has gone through so many phases of popularity that it can be hard to tell when it’s in or out of vogue. Which only makes it more surprising that Girl Ray – a trio of 19 year-olds from…
Going by his previous work, Kiran Leonard doesn’t strike you as the type to spell out his inspirations. However, ‘Could She Still Draw Back?’, the latest single from 21 year old Mancunian, comes complete with a line-drawing of famed Irish…
There’s something riotous going in Dublin lately. Groups like Girl Band and Bitch Falcon have delivered a sneering, noisy grunge, fronting an uncompromising and exciting new wave of Irish rawk n rawl. And now there’s singer-guitarist Maeve Molly and drummer…
Detroit’s place as one of the centres of US pop music in the ’60s is well-known. Along with the Motown hit factory, Detroit’s garage rock scene produced some of the most important groups of the era: The MC5, The Stooges…
One might have associated The Duke Spirit with early-to mid-noughties garage rock, but the last two years have arguably been the most prolific phase of their career. New album Sky is Mine will be released later this summer, following on…
In these trying times of closing of borders and narrowing of minds, along comes a band to make you question all your preconceptions of pop. Containing band members from Portugal, Spain, France, Egypt and the USA, Cristobal and the Sea‘s return…
Ostensibly a charity fundraiser for Liverpool’s Whitechapel Centre, promoters Fat Sister have managed to bring together an exciting bill comprising four of Liverpool’s most promising acts, with each offering a different take on how best to fill a set. Up…
The sophomore album from Kiwi singer-songwriter Aldous Harding, Party, is also her first on seminal indie label 4AD, and as her first international release acts as a sort of debut for a wider audience. 2014’s self-titled record on Flying Nun…