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Metronomy – Love Letters

“Back on the Riviera, it gets cold at night”, so goes a line in the first track on ‘Love Letters’, Metronomy’s fourth studio album, and their first since 2011’s breakout affair ‘The English Riviera’. Perhaps referring to the last album and his Devon coast upbringing (and a long lost teenage…

Blood Red Shoes – Blood Red Shoes

Blood Red Shoes fourth album opens with the instrumental track ‘Welcome Home’ which I like to think of as the sound of the band settling into the rented warehouse space in Berlin where they lived for several months last year recording the new album. Singer/drummer Steve Ansell explains the freedom…

Peggy Sue – Choir of Echoes

In line with the album's title, Choir of Echoes begins with the funereal voices of Rosa Slade and Katy Young, the two friends who initially formed Peggy Sue & The Pirates in Brighton in 2005, setting the tone for this slightly brooding yet mesmerising third studio album. …