It’s a return to form for The Vaccines in a fourth album that sees the five-piece head back to their roots. Combat Sports follows a three-year hiatus and is a reinvigorated simplified rock record that possesses the energy of What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? only with added production…
Vessel, the latest offering from Greta Kline’s alter ego Frankie Cosmos, clocks in at almost double the length of her debut Zentropy and could be considered her 18-track magnum opus. Her distinctive songwriting voice is enriched with the lo-fi indie-pop instrumentation of her bandmates – bassist/vocalist David Maine, keyboardist/vocalist Lauren Martin…
When you see Brighton duo Fruity Water live, there’s a huge difference between the two musicians on stage. While Adam Bell is almost floating around the stage, dreamily singing his lyrics, Smalan Odgers, next to him, resembles a mad scientist, hurrying between instruments, creating the backdrop and essentially spawning the…
The clocks may have just changed, but George Ezra only has his mind on speeding us all straight through spring and into the hazy peak of summer. Staying At Tamara’s is a record that is destined to soundtrack the 2018 festival season, indeed, it brings such an evocative mood…
Just when you thought Jack White couldn’t get any Jack White-ier, we get this. Is Jack White the new Sly Stone, or Bootsy Collins, or even Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry? Three veritable madmen of rock, who nevertheless rewrote the rule book, completely submerged themselves in the world of music, as both…
Three years on from their killer debut, Dream Soda, Demob Happy have finally returned with a powerful follow-up. They’ve lost a guitarist along the way, with the 2016 departure of Mathew Renforth, but Holy Doom still retains the band’s weighty presence on record, paired with an even greater sense of…
Following on from the release of their Rough Trade debut Overnight, the former BBC 2 Folk Duo award winners of 2015, continue their musical progression with Seedlings All, an album of all originals, and not a folk song in sight (at least not in the traditional sense).
There’s something refreshingly quaint yet modern about a band coming together in response to an online ad looking for like-minded musicians. Following his move from Limerick to Brighton in the quest to break into the London scene, Brían McNamara got his wish when his advert was answered by the…
Sunflower Bean are a trio of extremely young retro rockers from America, delivering their second album right on schedule: two years and two months after the first. Twentytwo In Blue hits our shelves and screens at the point that all three band members have reached the grand-old-age of 22. It’s…
Brighton Pier is truly iconic. A feature of our landscape since opening in 1899, this pleasure pier is Grade II listed, has featured in many works of British culture (Brighton Rock, Quadrophenia, Carry On At Your Convenience et al), and is by far our most important tourist attraction, and therefore…