Throughout his vast patchwork quilted career Paul Weller has been known to dip into the behemothic back pocket of music pulling out glorious ditty’s that have no doubt touched a nerve triggering his prolific juices into action. It’s a natural…
Welcoming back Stereolab with their stunning new album Instant Holograms On Metal Film co-released by the band’s own label Duophonic UHF Disks, and Warp Records is akin to giving a heroes welcome when it was announced Funny Feet ice cream’s…
Music unlocked from long discarded archives is what Think Like A Key Records do best. Delivering specialized impactful sights and sounds takes the consumer on a merry go round full of ups without a chance of hitting the ground, only…
Fitting into acceptable landscape windows of mainstream entertainment has to be fronted with shiny smiles, the latest trending threads of the day along with sounds that sound as familiar as those banal robotic overly manufactured mundane top 40 smashes. Back…
When it comes to infectious retro Hammond organ funk break beat grooves you might turn to the likes of the current crop including The New Mastersounds or return to the likes of Booker T Jones, Jimmy Smith or Art Neville….
20 years ago Sussex trio Keane released a brittle yet startling debut album in Hopes And Fears. The album echoed the Pet Shop Boys mixed with Carol King and a splash of The Human League with the sort of anthemic…
Flowered Up sprouted up gloriously like an award winning Chelsea Flower Show bloomer for a few years back in the early 1990’s. Formed on the back of meetings with original members, brothers Liam Maher vocalist and guitarist Joe Maher joined…
The Clique. No, not the mid 60’s combo who scored a mod classic hit single with She Aint No Good and no not the late psych 60’s outfit who had a hit with the 13th Floor Elevators Splash 1, I’m…
When 2 titans of Manchester’s music scene collide, you expect musical fireworks. Looking back on 3 of music’s big wig collaborations Blind Faith featuring Traffic’s Steve Winwood and Cream’s Eric Clapton lived up to the hype; New Order’s Bernard Sumner and The Smiths Johnny Marr brought…
Having teased us with the release of three EPs over the last few years, London-based Mersey-born folk artist Robin Elliott finally drops his long-awaited debut album ‘There Is A Land’ later this month. Produced by renowned folk artist Ben Walker,…