Singles Reviews: Released 01.09.14

The Singles Reviews give the Gigslutz writers an opportunity to listen to songs that wouldn’t usually pop up on their iPod, no matter how many times they shuffled. Sometimes they’re pleasantly surprised by a track by an artist they’d usually…

Milky Chance LIVE @ KOKO 26.8.14

German folktronica duo Milky Chance, who consist of Clemens Rehbein on vocals & guitar and Philipp Dausch as DJ, only finished their secondary education in 2012 but since then have gone on to achieve major success across Europe, most notably…

INTERVIEW: JAWS

JAWS are Connor Schofield (vocals/guitar), Alex Hudson (guitar), Jake Cooper (bass) and Ed Geach (drums). Over the past 2 years the chilled-out summery Birmingham 4-piece have being treating us with singles such as ‘Stay In’ and ‘Gold’ and have found…

LISTEN: Tom Prior shares new track ‘The Altar’

Following a great performance at Reading and Leeds festivals over the weekend, North London singer/songwriter Tom Prior has released the first track to be taken from his upcoming EP, Bad Advice. ‘The Altar’ serves the purpose of introducing Prior to…

INTERVIEW: Lowlakes

Lowlakes is Tom Snowdon, Bill Guerin, Jack Talbot and Brent Monaghan Originally hailing from Alice Springs in the central Australian desert, the band formed in 2011 after relocating to Melbourne. Their debut album, Iceberg Nerves, is released in the UK on…

The Wytches LIVE @ Rough Trade EAST 27/08/2014

Brighton’s Surf Doom rockers The Wytches were instore at Rough Trade for an intimate album release show. With the queue of mainly teenagers snaking long down the road, many eyes were fixed across the road as the band casually sat on the kerb…

The Horrors LIVE @ Reading Festival 24.08.14

Has a band ever been more about reinventing themselves than The Horrors? Think back to the goth-punk Strange House days where you wouldn’t be able to see anything but the thin-leg policy, monochrome clothes and overly sprayed hair, whereas nowadays…

ALBUM REVIEW: Tiny Fingers ‘Megafauna’

Rating: Avalanches of noise combined with fat and nasty guitar riffs; endless drum beats overlapped with obscene bass lines; bitter keyboards and the mute howl of inexistent vocals that enhance the mammoth sound, in a collection of nine pieces that…