A rising name who have already had quite the musical journey, Table Scraps are one Birmingham trio who have found themselves in the very midst of rock’n’roll. Having turned down label requests and continuously facing the struggles of being an upcoming name in the music industry, this band are…
Coming straight out of the depths of New Jersey, USA, Screaming Females return with their seventh full length record, All At Once. This trio are bringing with them a ferocious DIY sound which blends a great deal of punk, garage and edge in the form of 15 hard-hitting and…
There’s a great clip on the internet which features Marlon Williams duetting with his then lover Aldous Harding on the traditional folk song ‘The Trees They Do Grow High’. Utterly at one with one another and sidled up as close as close can be around one mic, it’s a…
By now you’ll know that Insecure Men is the joint project of Saul Adamczewski of Fat White Family and The Moonlandingz and Ben Romans-Hopcraft of Childhood. What you won’t know is that their eponymous debut album is like stepping into a middle-class satire, a surreal nightmare and a hallucinogenic celebrity…
In the latest chapter of a musical story that has been going for 22 years, Belle & Sebastian return to bring a little bit of joy and a whole lot of sunshine into the world once more. How To Solve Our Human Problems sees them continuing to play by…
Never has an album arrived with such prescient timing. Meg Remy’s sixth album as U.S. Girls (her second with 4AD), In A Poem Unlimited, is a record packed with character stories that capture a quiet, unquenchable rage at the world and will act as a rallying point for those…
Filled with insecurities, teenage love, weird sex, bruised shins and what Brian Eno would fondly term, “The sound of failure,” Twin Fantasy was always an unfinished concept for Will Toledo, frontman of the now-cultist Car Seat Headrest. Teens of Denial was 2016’s effort from the Seattle punk-rockers and, to…
Like a curtain of ice swept from a forest cabin window, the debut album from Loma forms a beautifully glacial world full of songs and sounds in which to immerse yourself. The trio of Jonathan Meiburg (Shearwater), Emily Cross and Dan Duszynski (both from Cross Record) bonded over time spent…
Ought’s third album is likely to divide fans on a first listen. On Room Inside The World Tim Darcy expels the sneeze that was brewing on 2015’s Sun Coming Down and lets out a soulful bellow. Room Inside The World sees Ought’s sound inverted in on itself going from the…
It’s been five years since the last MGMT album, but you could be forgiven for thinking it has actually been eight, or even a decade. There’s has unfortunately been one of those careers of diminishing returns. Their début album, Oracular Spectacular, was a bit of a phenomenon. I’ve seen a…