As an anti-Valentine’s Day treat earlier this week, Thee Deadtime Philharmonic released their hugely anticipated album Estate of the Heart. With the band based in Swadlincote, South Derby, the album is a candidly honest reflection of the world around them….
The Australian underground music scene seems familiar to a dark-twisted folklore that we don’t hear of much across the Pacific, but that doesn’t mean it’s any kind of imaginary. The land of Oz boasts a booming, fresh twist on an…
Life goes on and our national pastime of consumerism has resumed, sort of. On seeing goods stacked high we, as Brits, traditionally like to reach for our wallets the way Shane did for his pistol. This reflex we like to…
Rating: Public Image Limited’s seminal Metal Box was famously originally released in a “metal” film canister, therefore it’s slightly incongruous reviewing an umpteenth version via stream, the stark physicality of the original release in 1979’s mid-Winter a symbol of artistic…
I’m immediately reminded of the popular Netflix series ‘Stranger Things’ when track one of Blood Bitch – the new album from Jenny Hval – begins. Throughout ‘Ritual Awakening’, Hval’s soft yet haunted vocal add an eeriness similar to the atmosphere found…
Rating: On first hearing it, you may find yourself describing this album as the music of the spheres, but no matter, it took some balls to make it. It refreshes parts other tracts of sound fail to reach via a…
It’s far too easy to be cynical these days, so why don’t you allow yourself to have your heart melted by the awe-inspiring new album from Pascal Pinon? The product of sisters Jófríõur and Ásthildur Ákadóttir being separated for the first times in…
Rating: The youthful Warrington swagger evident on this album is reminiscent of all the great melodies that ever once swirled out of the UK’s north. Unconsciously steeped in all of them, Viola Beach was the latest in a long line…
Berkeley band The Blondies have returned with their riveting, raw second album Just Another Evening, following their 2015 release Beautiful Lie. Title track, ‘Just Another Evening’, opens the album. Injected with piano chords and simplistic melodies resembling The Beatles, the…
While constructive criticism is rarely discouraged, sometimes excessively gushy, overly positive reviews are necessary. Particularly when the review in question is of something as wholly wonderful as Lovelace’s Lands. Lovelace herself (AKA Rebecca Whitbread) is someone to look up to in…