Reviews

EP: Scarlet ‘Fishes’

Rating: Fishes. The debut EP from Jessie Robinson’s alt-pop brainchild Scarlet. It’s quite simply majestically dark alt-pop at it’s pulsy and vibrant best. The EPs opener is also its lead single ‘Anyway’. The track was played by BBC Radio 6 Music in the wake of it’s release…

New Track: Sofia – ‘Untamable (Kandylion Remix)’

Having previously recorded a bold and moving rendition of Jesse J’s ‘Do It Like A Dude’ (premiered on Gigslutz), international artist Sofia is back with a new single. ‘Untamable’ originally featured on Sofia’s debut EP Once Upon A Time but has now…

LIVE: Wolf Alice – The Monarch, London 24.04.15

Doused in glitter and looking like a walking advertisement for Rokit Vintage, Wolf Alice fans gathered outside The Monarch in Camden. Flailing phones about in excitement – reassuring themselves as much as anyone else that they had actually won tickets…

ALBUM: Brian Jonestown Massacre ‘Musique de Film Imagine’

Rating: Translated as “Music of the Imaginary Film”, this is the creative, personal soundtrack to a non-existent film inspired by the Parisian film culture prevalent half a century ago. The problem with solitary missions like this is that they can come across…

ALBUM: Wire ‘Wire’

Rating: More than thirty five years on from their seminal debut album, Pink Flag, you’d think by now Wire might be content to put their feet up and wallow in a legacy that sees them revered as cult legends of Britain’s…

ALBUM (TRACK BY TRACK): Blur ‘The Magic Whip’

Rating: After the wait of twelve years, The Magic Whip is the next instalment for Blur, and is their most intimate and honest album so far. Blur seem to be doing their own thing, without aiming for the commercialisation. Albarn, Coxon,…

ALBUM: East India Youth ‘Culture Of Volume’

Rating: East India Youth is 23 year old William Doyle, a talented man from the shores of Bournemouth. The name comes from East India Docks, the place where he worked on his debut Mercury nominated album, Total Strife Forever. “Bournemouth…