Author Archives: Melissa Svensen

About Melissa Svensen

Melissa, 22. Editor. Student, music journalist, probably talking about Blur or Bowie

ALBUM: British Sea Power ‘Sea Of Brass’

Rating: After a series of concerts last year accompanied by various brass bands around the UK, British Sea Power have turned the project into an album. Sea of Brass – a collection of 14 songs from the band’s entire catalogue…

Ones To Watch: Jackals Rose

Hailing from Essex, Jackals Rose are bursting into the forefront of new music with their exciting brand of fuzz rock. It’s a tricky thing to pull off – a decent fuzz sound, that is – and it seems bands often…

Tracks Of The Week, 16.10.15

Giving us a taste of their forthcoming debut album Few More Days To Go, Fufanu’s ‘Now’ is an insight into just how exciting their album will be. Whilst the band started off making techno tunes, it’s tricky to imagine them…

Ones To Watch: ELLEKAYE

Picture all the angst you can imagine, gathered together in the form of emotionally driven, punchy tunes; what you’re imagining is ELLEKAYE. A quartet from Brighton and London, a result of university friendships, ELLEKAYE are the band you didn’t know…

Video Premiere: Grassfight – ‘Breaking Up Pigeons’

Drawing influence from Spacemen 3, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Spoon, New York band Grassfight are breaking the post-punk world with the emotion-ridden tracks. Their EP, Please Don’t Tell sees the band document the break-up of two of the band members. Taken…

Introducing Interview: AFFAIRS

Manchester band AFFAIRS are quickly becoming a well known name on the indie circuit. Having supported the likes of Alt-J and Dog Is Dead, and being championed by the likes of John Kennedy and Steve Lamacq, it won’t be long…

Ones To Watch: Lust for Youth

Lust for Youth are Hannes Norrvide, Malthe Fischer and Loke Rajbek: a trio from Copenhagen proving for the umpteenth time this year exactly where in the world we should be searching for new music. Constantly exploring and expanding their sound,…

INTERVIEW: Honeyblood

After a packed out, raucous set on Friday at Bestival, Honeyblood’s Stina Tweeddale kindly took time out of her only full festival of the summer to chat to us about album plans, polite fans and ideal lineups…  So we’re getting…