Author Archives: Sam Chamberlaine

REVIEW: The Great Escape pulls it off again!

Pic: Michael Burnell In Brighton for another year of discovering the hottest new artists shaping up the musical landscape. After a two year hiatus The Great Escape returns for 2022, with over 400+ bands across 35 stages. The festival gets…

ALBUM REVIEW: Mr Mikey, ‘Simply The Best’

Mr Mikey releases his new album ‘Simply The Best’, emerging from previous incarnation as Mr Solo and emerging from Mikey Georgeson’s art-pop impresario presence as David Devant and His Spirit Wife – you can hear the art-rock swagger as he…

Track by Track: Sugarcane, ‘Cat’s Eyes’

Sugarcane have just released their debut album ‘Cat’s Eyes‘ and to celebrate they share with us an in-depth reflection on the tracks inspirations, collaborations and stories behind the lyrics. In the album British indie songwriting is infused with Brazilian, Samba…

LISTEN: Richard Jahn, ‘Private Members Club’

Richard Jahn demonstrates some slick production skills and karate style dance moves in new track, Private Members Club.  The track highlights class divides, reflected in the rise of the private members club, as Jahn attempts to gate-crash his way in. We enter…

LISTEN: MOSES Release ‘Move On’

Following the celebrated release of their debut album, Almost Everything Is Bullshit and clocking-up over 10 million streams on Spotify, it is no surprise that MOSES have just been signed with Marshall Live Agency, as they kick-off with a string of…

LISTEN: Sasha & The Shades, ‘Falling’

Sasha and the Shades have been busy working away in the studio over lockdown, with Falling the first in a string of releases from their new EP ‘Grin & Bare It’ out in Spring 2021. A departure from their normally glorious…

PREMIERE: FLOR & THE SEA – KINGS & QUEENS

Munich-based indie/electropop duo Flor and the Sea return with the title track of their Kings & Queens EP, picking and mixing genres from, indie, rock, pop, ambient, electronica and pop.  Kings & Queens sees the pair inviting you to surrender and glide with them as…

LISTEN: Felid returns with new track ‘Blame’

Bristol based artist Felid releases new alt-pop track Blame.  Produced in his downtime on a hotel night shift, the electronic pop producer fuses lush textures, electronics, synths, amongst crunching striding beats. The alluring vocals reaching out to understand the dynamics of a…

NEWS: Flor and the Sea Release ‘A Candid Lie’

Munich based Indie/electropop duo Flor and the Sea, Marc Aretz (guitar/synth) and Chaem (vox) release new track A Candid Lie, from their Kings and Queens EP, due to follow in November.  The sound of Flor and the Sea is ambient, buoyant and infectious. Take…