Rating: As a fan of Feeder, I was intrigued to hear that, after a career spanning 20 years, front-man Grant Nicholas is releasing his debut solo album Yorktown Heights. Lead track ‘Soul Mates’ is a beauty, and this cool breezy…
Rating: “These will not be Frightened Rabbit songs. These will be John’s songs.” When a band starts off as a solo project like Frightened Rabbit did back in 2003 there has to be part of them that wants to try…
Rating: Dumb may be a recent addition to the big Brum hype but they don’t appear like the latecomers. The last year has seen them build a bigger fan base with support slots for the likes of Baby Strange, Superfood…
Rating: It’s only been a year since the sounds of Cyclops Reap first started emanating from your cool, flannel-clad neighbours’ open windows, the one who wears thick black Ray Ban Wayfarers and could pull of a moustache if he wanted….
Rating: Once only known as the secretive duo of ‘J’ and ‘T’, it took a while for Jungle’s true identity to be revealed. Being unknown at the beginning is becoming the in-thing to do; it’s worked for Superfood and now…
Rating: There’s a brilliant and droll line in the film Trouble in Paradise where Kay Francis says to Edward Everett Horton, “Marriage is a beautiful mistake which two people make together.” Given that La Roux’s founding members Elly Jackson and…
Rating: Jon Allen’s voice has been praised to the point of idolatry, for which journalists could be burnt at the stake in some countries. A journalist must be constantly aware that praise can do as much damage as good; Had…
Rating: Take two Glaswegian girls; add rock heavy drums and shoe gazing guitar and you’ve got Honeyblood, the kick ass, all girl duo. Their self-titled debut is the break up album that puts ‘Super Rat’ exes firmly in their place….
Rating: With their second release, Batsch tune up the distinction in their “dark disco” tunes, or “gutter glamour” as lead singer and guitarist Mason Le Long defines it, and layer on the groove. Relative clarity, abstract alliteration and proliferation of…
Rating: If I have learned one thing in my time on this planet, it is not to try and second-guess a Super Furry Animal. The experimental Welsh rock band’s overall style has always managed to be at once immediately distinctive…