Rating: It’s only right that one puts aside Flowers’ work with The Killers before appraising his second solo LP. One might assume that he continues here to better express his ideas. One also, therefore, might expect him to seize this…
Rating: “What’s left of old Barnsley seems to have disappeared pretty quickly.” This extract from the opening of The Hurriers’ debut album, From Acorns Mighty Oaks, is a clear distillation of the band’s anti-Tory political stance. Describing themselves as “a proper Socialist…
Rating: It seems to be have become the norm for bands who carry success beyond the “difficult second album”, that no sooner do you find a formula that works, it begins to wear thin; “the sweetest honey is loathsome in…
Rating: Over the last few years, Scandinavian duo Say Lou Lou have been steadily crafting a reputation for making classy, considered pop music. With a string of seductive singles and collaborations with the likes of Chet Faker, the band have teased their…
Rating: If you’ve ever had to use the bus, tube or whatever type of public transport there is available, then you’ve certainly seen one of these people in black t-shirts carrying the logo of – insert band’s name here –…
Rating: I’ve pretty much been in awe of Laura Marling since she first graced our ear-drums back when when she was just 17. Now she’s reached the ripe old age of 25, I remain impressed (and slightly jealous) by just…
Rating: ‘Glory Days’ as the opener to Carl Barat‘s latest LP, Let It Reign, is reminiscent of the blues of The Rolling Stones, coupled with an impassioned delivery á la Strummer. Barat is proud of this assault on your eardrums, you…
Rating: With their first, self-released EP, Colours, having reached No. 7 in the iTunes download alternative charts, Essex-based alternative pop band Youth Club‘s follow up, Brothers, has high expectations. Drawing inspirations from “summer and all things colourful”, the EP boasts a very pre-summer/anticipating summer feeling,…
Rating: Since his 2012 debut, Essex-based singer/songwriter Joe Boyd has been showing a class example of DIY music. First, he formed Agony & Ecstasy Records to release his LP, Totem, with which he immediately made a name for himself in the industry….
Rating: Kodaline, the Dublin-based rock quartet who have been compared to the likes of U2, Keane and Oasis, are set to release their second album, Coming Up For Air, following the success of their debut, In A Perfect World. With recording starting just after…