Reviews

Tracks Of The Week, 19.08.15

Taken from the upcoming album Sore, Dilly Dally’s latest track ‘Desire’ is, as front-woman Katie Monks says, “an ode to the youthful part of yourself that lets you escape your daily routine and unleash whatever strange ideas you may have…

ALBUM: RADKEY – ‘Dark Black Makeup’

Following the release of three tracks already this year, Missouri trio of brothers – Radkey – now present the world with their debut album. After hearing the tracks ‘Parade It’, ‘Love Spills’ and title track ‘Dark Black Makeup’, I was anxious that…

LIVE: The Membranes @ Rebellion Festival, Blackpool

So, here we are, four days into Rebellion festival packed with both quality and quantity. It’s Sunday night, the audience are tired and suffering from festival fever and overindulgence on a grand scale, but just one more band to see…

ALBUM: Jess Glynne ‘I Cry When I Laugh’

Rating: When breaking out as a solo artist after years of providing guest vocals, it is essential to sever the links and emerge as an artist in your own right. Despite clearly being a very talented singer with several delightful…

ALBUM: Spector ‘Moth Boys’

Rating: 2012: With the heavily patriotic backdrop of the imminent Olympic Games, Swim Deep released a grungy, homebodied video for an anthem of the short lived B-TOWN scene, ‘King City’. A few months later, DIIV presented Oshin; forty minutes and…

ALBUM: The Strypes ‘Little Victories’

Rating: It’s unfortunate that The Strypes seemed to have developed a stereotypical tagging: “young band, retro sound” with special emphasis on the “young”. It has also dragged with it so many misjudged and untruthful presumptions. For the time The Strypes…