Everything about The Magic Numbers’ comeback, after a hiatus of three years, has seemed grittier and darker. From the black and white press shots, with the band donning black leather jackets, titled “Are you in or out?”, to the 70s-style rock anthems spiralling throughout their new record, Outsiders, starting from…
The ego has landed! Arctic Monkeys have finally delivered their long-anticipated sixth studio album, and it could be their most ambitious to date. A concept album, of pure retro futurism, set in a luxury hotel on the moon for the rich, the famous and even Jesus himself. This collection of…
You just can’t keep a good band down. With reunions continuing apace – even archetypal Britpop band Sleeper have recently announced they are making a new record again – Belly have just released their first album since 1995’s King.
Lies That Comfort You is the debut album from Fierce Friend, the brain child of local musician Alan Grice, who you may have spotted tinkling the ivories, thumping the tubs, or any other number of vernacular descriptions for performing on instruments, within a great number of Brighton bands. Most notably,…
Transport yourself to a tiny world where anything is possible, and ready yourself for Luke Haines’ I Sometimes Dream of Glue, one of the more intriguing concept albums to come out of this year, if not decade. Prepare your mind, because when you delve further into Glue Town and…
“They say that I was born to lose, but I made a good good thing, out of bad bad news” Leon Bridges passionately sings on his new record, Good Thing’s lead single ‘Bad Bad News’. Leon Bridges’ story is nothing but magnificently uplifting and inspirational. In just two years, he…
Supergrass are but a distant memory, the adrenalin teenage rush of ‘Caught by the Fuzz’ a brilliant footnote in the history of Brit pop. However, Coombes is a musical survivor. We knew what a talent he was when he burst on the scene. His natural pop songwriting ability was there…
20 years into their life as a band, Okkervil River have delivered one of their best yet, up there with Black Sheep Boy, perhaps their most revered album in a career full of revered works. Will Sheff is the only constant in a band that has always refused to sit…
A triumphant return to the political scene after so long lingering in the shadows, Frank Turner is back with with seventh record, Be More Kind, an album which, at it’s very core, preaches nothing but the simple message in its three word title. This is one listen which aims…
‘Give peace a chance’, they said, and so I did – reviewing their second album, Happy People, for Brightonsfinest back in 2015. While I was sympathetic to the common criticism that the band are not the most original bunch in the world, I concluded that their approach was more a…