REVIEW: Keane Hopes and Fears 20
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…
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REVIEW: Flowered Up A Life With Brian reissue
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…
REVIEW: The Clique – The Preservation Society
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…
ALBUM REVIEW: Liam Gallagher and John Squire album review
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…
ALBUM REVIEW: Robin Elliott – ‘There Is A Land’
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,…
Album: Gabi Garbutt & The Illuminations Light Up In ‘The Discredited Language of Angels’
Rating: Let’s talk about love. Gabi Garbutt & The Illuminations release their debut album, The Discredited Language of Angels. Corbynista Gabi Garbutt has been releasing singles over the last year from The Fool, to Lady Matador. She recently finished recording her debut album at Edwyn Collins studio…
ALBUM: Blanck Mass – ‘Animated Violence Mild’
A seamlessly orchestrated dose of electronic aural energy designed to tear down grief, consumerism and denial: Sacred Bones signee Blanck Mass is set to share his fourth album Animated Violence Mild on 16th August. The solo project of Scotland-based musician Benjamin John Power (Fuck Buttons),…
ALBUM: PRIMAL SCREAM ‘Maximum Rock ’N’ Roll: The Singles’
If Vincent Price had dropped out, tuned in, bought a drum kit and then eschewed a barber, he might, just might, have turned into Bobby Gillespie, the Glaswegian’s lugubrious, feline face looking at and through the lens of every camera…
ALBUM: Bring Me The Horizon – ‘Amo’
Friday 25th January Bring Me, dropped their sixth studio album Amo and its not what anyone expected.
ALBUM: St Paul & The Broken Bones ‘Young Sick Camellia’
With glowing press coverage having so far stretched to Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Vanity Fair and the Wall Street Journal, it would behove the cannier listener to accept that the corporate mainstream press might just love St Paul…