Reviews

Tracks Of The Week, 25.06.15

We have four awesome Tracks Of The Week, as usual. But, this week, one of our fantastic writers, James Cummins, has helped me out by reviewing one of the tracks… Liverpool-based band, The Jackobins, are currently undergoing a tour scaling…

ALBUM: Heyrocco ‘Teenage Movie Soundtrack’

Teenage Movie Soundtrack is the perfect title for Heyrocco’s debut album, as it certainly would not sound out of place as the soundscape to a ’90s indie rom-com. It can often be argued that ’90s-deriving grunge bands are nothing short…

LIVE: SEA LION @ THE ISLINGTON, LONDON, 22.06.15

Sea Lion (aka Linn Osterberg) performed to a small, but appreciative crowd last night at The Islington. Against a backdrop of red velvet curtains, the Swedish singer used her guitar to create waves of electric ambience – initially with her back to the…

ALBUM: Peter Zinovieff ‘Electronic Calendar: The EMS Tapes’

Rating: Electronic Calendar: The EMS Tapes is the first complete retrospective of his earliest experiments in 1965 through the bankruptcy of his company, EMS Synthesizers, in 1979. Stifled by academia, Peter Zinovieff began creating music from splices of tape and after…

LIVE: Blur @ BST, Hyde Park, 20.06.15

Having never had the chance to see my first ‘favourite’ band (not ashamed to say, Damon’s face decorated my pre-teen walls) over the last twenty years, expectations were high as to what Blur could deliver to the massive crowd on…