Reviews

LIVE: The End Festival, Crouch End 23.11.14

The End festival is an annual event that brings new music to Crouch End, taking underground bands a bit further north than their usual Shoreditch and Camden haunts for a change of scenery. With gigs held in make-do local venues…

ALBUM REVIEW: Wild Smiles ‘Always Tomorrow’

Against everything that your ears might tell you, Wild Smiles started making music in Hampshire. In a garden shed in Hampshire, to be precise – not, as their beach-spun sound might suggest, on a wooden jetty in Orange County, California….

ALBUM REVIEW: Kelis ‘Live In London’

Rating: Earlier this year Kelis released to the world her sixth studio album, the soul inspired Food, four years after her last record. In July, Kelis brought the album and a handful of hits to Somerset House and recorded the…

ALBUM REVIEW: Thompson ‘Family’

Rating: With a story telling genre such as folk, it was easy for Teddy Thompson and his clan to express their trials and tribulations in collaborative album ‘Family’. Once a legendary duo his parents, Richard and Linda drifted away to…

Tracks Of The Week, 24.11.14

New Londoner on the scene, Jack Garratt, is here to sweep you off your feet. Although compared to the likes of James Blake and Damien Rice, it is clear upon first listen that Garratt is incomparable: oozing a completely unique…