Tag: new album

Interview: Girls Names

With their distinctive dark indie pop noises and euphoric notes, Girls Names are fast becoming the best thing to come out of Northern Ireland since The Undertones. With their new album ‘Arms Around A Vision’ easily being their most immediate, forceful…

ALBUM: Dexters ‘We Paid For Blood’

Rating: As one of the many who became instantly and immensely impressed by the self-titled debut from Dexters last year, I was admittedly as nervous as I was excited when I heard word of the sequel, We Paid For Blood….

ALBUM: Low ‘Ones & Sixes’

Rating: Two decades on, eleven albums in, and Low are still determinedly testing their limits and composing songs that leave listeners on the verge of apparent breakdowns, whether due to their cataclysmic clout or gorgeous hymnal simplicity. Ones & Sixes…

ALBUM: Queen Kwong – ‘Get A Witness’

After much anticipation, we’re finally blessed with a debut album from LA-based Queen Kwong – aka Carré Carraway. After a sold out four month residency in London earlier this year, the LA punks built up a bit of a reputation…

ALBUM: RADKEY – ‘Dark Black Makeup’

Following the release of three tracks already this year, Missouri trio of brothers – Radkey – now present the world with their debut album. After hearing the tracks ‘Parade It’, ‘Love Spills’ and title track ‘Dark Black Makeup’, I was anxious that…

ALBUM: The Maccabees ‘Marks To Prove It’

Rating: Arriving at their fourth album, The Maccabees have created something wonderfully grown up and immersive with new record, Marks To Prove It. A million miles away from those sweetly romanticised tones on the popular Toothpaste Kisses, seven years on since…

INTERVIEW: Paul Smith

Maximo Park front man, successful solo artist and all round dynamic pop auteur, Paul Smith is back with a new album ‘Contradictions’ performed with his band The Intimations. Creating a more hi-fi progression from his last solo feat, the new…