Rating: Here we have a bedroom auteur in thrall to the ‘80s. Do we need anymore? On the evidence of this, yes. This is an album that likes a bass sound, running the full gamut of phat, phunky, phrobbing, phumping,…
With 2001’s ‘Drukqs’ being the most recent release from James D Hunter under his Aphex Twin alias, fans of the electronic musician and composer will have been ecstatic to see a digital copy of his lost album ‘Caustic Love’ surface…
Rating: With 7 million albums and 12 million singles sold to date, along with 1 billion hits on YouTube to accompany, it can’t be denied that Lana Del Rey is taking over the world of music with sheer brute force,…
Rating: Hailing from Sunderland, multi-instrumentalist Martin Longstaff has really begun to build a credible reputation for himself. Drawing on the influences of legendary American folk singer Neil Young, he has gone on to support young sensation Jake Bugg as well…
Rating: After listening to Hot Chip, people may think they know what to expect from frontman Alexis Taylor with his solo material. Those people would be wrong, if they were expecting the tight “alt-dance-pop”. On Await Barbarians rhythm and sounds…
EPs are tricky to get right because of their shortness – they must grab you right from the first song. A great EP can set a band up with brilliant momentum for an impressive full-length LP (Peace’s EP Delicious being…
Monument Valley is the solo project of Ned Younger whose 2012 7” single ‘Your Cover Blown’ has been waiting far too long for a follow up album. Well, here it is. Released last week, Walking On Skin is a beautifully…
With the folk revival laying waste to the charts since the start of the decade, bands such as Mumford and Sons, Fleet Foxes and The Lumineers have been enjoying healthy careers as of late. Acoustic guitars are flying off the…
You can get away with arrogance as a frontman to a certain extent, if you can back it up with your music – Alex Turner and the Arctic Monkeys, say no more. Thus far, Tom Meighan has guided Kasabian through…
Despite beginning the recording of the album in the harsh months of January, ‘Circa’ brings to us coastal sounds which burrow under the emotions with it’s evocative melodies bringing us tales of rites of passage. All against a backdrop of…