While Keane frontman Tom Chaplin has been performing sappy Christmas songs during the band’s hiatus, other Keane members Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin formed the country band Mt. Desolation. Their first album, the eponymous Mt. Desolation, explored the worlds of blues and country with the help of members of Mumford…
Dreamy rock and roll hailing from Vancouver, Jo Passed have certainly been busy with their debut release. Their Prime is an 11-piece record which is able to simultaneously transport you from the most uplifting places yet concurrently combines its dreamy tones with far darker aspects of the human mind.
Mainstream indie favourites Snow Patrol have returned with their first album in seven years, following 2011’s Fallen Empires with Wildness. It finds the band, particularly frontman Gary Lightbody, delving into exceptionally personal ground as the band search for lucidity, affinity, and the true meaning, as Lightbody dedicates songs to his…
Putting on Sparkle Hard for the first time last week I felt this strange sense of comforting familiarity. As someone who was unabashedly obsessed with Pavement’s last album Terror Twilight at the tail-end of the 90s, checking out Stephen Malkmus in 2018 makes me feel like the prodigal son, welcomed…
Charles Watson departs from Slow Club’s indie-pop sound on his self-produced debut solo album. Presenting us instead with sophisticated retro pop that borrows sonic chops from Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, and a bit of Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor, whilst also looking further back to 70s folk and Americana for inspiration.
Courtney Barnett is back! The queen of observational slacker rock has taken a much darker turn on her second record, Tell Me How You Really Feel. The Aussie artist, who has released an album with Kurt Vile as well as touring with her girlfriend Jen Cloher in the last year,…
With just two records released in the past 10 years Irish rockers, Ash, have returned with their latest studio album, Islands. A nostalgic 12 track record which will transport you directly back into the era of naughties rock and powerhouse ballads. Ash have been going since 1992, but here they…
Before Wide Awake! was officially announced, Parquet Courts’ Andrew Savage had stated that their new album would be full of “Rippers”. Parquet Courts’ typical sounds of underproduction have been swapped for something more stereo. Now we have the final product, does it rip? Indeed it does, whatever that means.
7 is the seventh album from beloved Baltimore indie duo Beach House. 7 supposedly puts a bookend on the band’s previous output, starting anew. The new refreshed Beach House won’t shock you with a change-up of style so much; instead 7 sees a looser style for the band with denser…
First catching my attention at last year’s Great Escape festival, Artificial Pleasure vocalist and guitarist Phil McDonnell’s theatrical in-your-face persona was a dumbfounding mix of Bryan Ferry and Johnny Rotten. Whilst he was fun to watch, he also gave the impression that he could flip at any given time; this…