On ‘Sick Holiday’, Supergrass sticksman Danny Goffey blends Ian Dury & son’s point of voyeurism with breezy Squeezey sonics. The result is an aural postcard sent from his recent break to Greece (and back) with cheapo flying coop, Easyjet. Casually…
Tom waits for no one as internal gurning and intestinal yearning run rampant on this five-tracker from floppy-haired fop Tom Branfoot, fittingly for Miles Hunt’s doppelgänger this is five star wonder stuff. Another rusty nail is hammered into Brexitland’s casket…
Teen Creeps are comprised of Hypochristmutreefuzz drummer Ramses Van den Eede, singer-bass player Bert Vliegen (Sophia and Horses) and guitarist Joram De Bock (ex-Deadender). This Ghent supergroup typify the ‘Daydream Generation’, the demographic that has been reared on a hyper-awareness…
Fresh from releasing 2017’s politico-manifesto The Last Days of Dark the mercurial Timothy Dark now releases his four-track EP Dark Day Afternoon. It’s the 1980s. As Morris Day dreams of The Time, Lovebug Starski espies the Young MC in the house…
The new Sparse Anatomy EP from Brighton natives, Scab Hand, is produced by axe-auteur Marc R. Norris (Eighties Matchbox, B-Line Disaster) and boy, does it show! Sparse Anatomy is Scab Hands latest effort. Following the success of 2017’s ‘Howl/Irregular Bed’ single, as well as…
Former generation terrorists, The Manic Street Preachers, continue to fly the flag for revolution on ‘Distant Colours’. The track is taken from the forthcoming album Resistance is Futile, their first album in four years. A lament to the leftist ideologies of…
By virtue of her moniker, Snail Mail goes King Canute by attempting to stem the tides of technology and the waves of wi-fi on her new single, ‘Pristine’. ‘Pristine’ is a slacker analogue-catalogue of memories to an ex-amour, whose resonance still…
On ‘Falling Into Me’, teenage Norfolkers Let’s Eat Grandma go gunning for Lorde’s am-dram gothic market while adding a dollop of Joanna Newsom (losing some of the lil’ Bo Peep vocal theatrics, of course). The result renders them the definite…
Shades of Sade’s ‘No Ordinary Love’ and Björk’s ‘Play Dead’ illuminate ‘Prayer’, a sermon from the peripatetic performer, Blakk Pearl. Wanderlust’s psychic properties and the emotions wrought by absent patriarchs (her AWOL Pops is the manager of NWA) combine to…
Pop cultural archivists of fads and whims, evokers of folklorian ditties and shamanic arias, Peel favourites and in the words of Andy Kershaw ‘Britain’s finest folk band,’; we bring you 10 Top Tracks by Half Man Half Biscuit. Famously spurning…