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9 Brilliant Albums We Missed in 2014

At Gigslutz we strive to bring you reviews of the best albums each week, but we’re only human (debatable at times) and occasionally we miss a few. Well, that or the record label/PR agency neglect to send us a copy of…

Unsigned City: Leicester

Promoting unsigned artists is something we at Gigslutz feel extremely passionate about, with our regular ‘Unsigned Act Of The Week’ and ‘Ones To Watch’ features, as well as a wealth of reviews and premieres. Celebrating new artists, or even people…

Tracks Of The Week, 20.10.14

Delivering cheery indie-pop with a welcome rough edge, We Are Z have arrived on the scene for your listening pleasure. Their debut single, ‘Airbrush’, blasts into the eardrums after months of  the band being locked away in a West London…

Kid Ink LIVE @ Manchester Academy 16.10.14

Rating: Kid Ink is playing Manchester Academy 1 tonight after being upgraded from Academy 3. There’s over 2000 people’s worth of capacity difference in these venues, which is mental. Although he is incredibly well-known in the US and less so…

Underworld LIVE @ Royal Festival Hall 11.10.14

Scanning the Royal Festival Hall crowd before this gig to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Underworld‘s dubnobasswithmyheadman, you’d be forgiven for questioning whether the mostly 40-something audience had turned up to the wrong event. Yet look closely and it’s easy to spot the 90s rave veterans in…

ALBUM REVIEW: Vashti Bunyan ‘Heartleap’

Rating: Vashti Bunyan’s nomadic wayfaring has taken her to some extraordinary places. ‘Heartleap’ her third and final album, is the sound of an artist discovering their musical homeland after forty-four years of personal pursuit. A recluse by nature, the songwriter’s…

ALBUM REVIEW: Aphex Twin ‘Syro’

Rating: It has finally arrived, the album that has been 13 years in the making. Richard D James, otherwise known as Aphex Twin, imagination has been put into overdrive with this new album. The ‘Windowlicker’ producer sent the dance music…