Author Archives: Elli Brazzill

About Elli Brazzill

I’m Elli, 20 and live in Manchester. I like good music, gigs, rice krispies, 7” singles and puns. Alex G, Day Wave, Jaws, Talking Heads, Best Friends, Mac DeMarco, The Strokes, Parquet Courts and Tyler the Creator are pretty cool aren’t they. @cometobrazzill on twitter.

Discovery of the Week: Clay

Clay are all about the mystery. I’m not sure if it’s on purpose or not, but the internet seems to be a vast chasm where information about these guys should be, well that’s what I’ve found anyway. What I can say…

LIVE: Glass Animals – Gorilla, Manchester 05.03.15

Glass Animals headlined Manchester’s Gorilla tonight as part of their almost totally sold out UK tour. After the well-received release of debut album, Zaba, this isn’t a great surprise. To support tonight is Tropics, or Chris Ward to his friends. Ward suits…

Discovery of the Week: Jasia

I was jealous of Jasia before I’d even heard how talented he was musically. He’d lived in Jamaica, the U.S and Australia all by the age of 18, whereas I’ve been in Manchester for my entire 18 years – I…

Discovery of the Week: Declan Mckenna

At 16, I was pretending to care about my GCSEs, going to the park and just generally being not very productive. Declan Mckenna is 16 and he’s already getting spot plays on Radio 1. I definitely need to try harder….

Discovery of the Week: Bigtopp

As we all know, some of the best music around these days is underground and unsigned artists. The only downside to this is that there’s no record label to invest into our favourite new music and help them reach their…

Discovery of the Week: Sasha Siem

Although I didn’t realise it, my life was seriously lacking some complex string orchestra-based alternative music until now. Since my discovery of Sasha Siem, this void in life has been completed. Her classically trained musical background forms the main unique…

New Track: Man Made – ‘Carsick Cars’

‘Carsick Cars’ is the latest and best single so far from Manchester indie trio Man Made. Starting as Nile Marr’s solo project, Man Made has progressed over the years into the fully developed and slick band they are today. The…