After being nigh-on inseparable since childhood, Klara Söderberg’s relocation away from her older sister Johanna to be closer to her partner in Manchester brought many challenges. When that relationship ended painfully, it served to further heighten an incredibly tough few years for the sisters from Enskede, Sweden. Upon announcing this…
A new Ty Segall record is becoming an annual occurrence. Since 2008, the prolific leader of the psychedelic fuzz-rock movement has released an album a year. This year, he’s kicking off 2018 in style with a record that is a celebration of the “Freedom to love or to be alone;…
We’ve all been there. From ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright’ and ‘Without You’ to the entirety of Rumours, nothing quite stirs the heart or imagination as much as tales of lost loves, heartaches and heartbreaks. So when The XCERTS frontman Murray Macleod went through a major relationship break up, it…
It’s been a while since the moody muscle of Robert Levon Been, Peter Hayes and Leah Shapiro graced us. Since 2013’s Specter At The Feast, the band have endured a whirlwind of mishaps and misfortune, from Shapiro’s need for urgent surgery, through to trouble with producers and recordings, Wrong Creatures…
Poor old indie-rock has been having a rough time of late. Its limitations have been exposed by the adventurism, innovation and genre-hopping invention of artists spanning the globe. Even The Big Moon’s extraordinary Love In The 4th Dimension failed to get the kudos it deserved. Because, well it’s indie, isn’t…
Purgatory has been out for a while in Childers’ American homeland, but the UK has long had a strong relationship with all things Americana, country, bluegrass and alt-country; a sometimes misguided rose-tinted nostalgia for an America that isn’t really there, but also an appreciation of the outlaw, outsider, raw and…
Barely two weeks into 2018, Brixton’s Shame have just made a compelling early case for Album of the Year. They are yet another band (but clearly not just another band) to emerge from the same South London scene as, amongst others, Fat White Family, HMLTD and YOWL and capture the…
While Pharrell Williams can seemingly do little wrong as a solo artist, his band N.E.R.D have often felt like a great concept in search of a consistent sound or ethos and only a handful of good songs. However, in the years since 2010s Nothing, it seems that minds and efforts…
It is sadly only the last definition that describes Eminem’s ninth studio album, as the downturn in quality that he has been on over the last decade continues (with a handful of notable exceptions). When The Slim Shady LP burst into the public consciousness at the turn of the century,…
Belfast-based duo Lucy and Thomas Gaffney have recently joined a long and distinguished line of brother and sister sibling musical partnerships. The Carpenters, Angus & Julia Stone, and The Magic Numbers are perhaps amongst those who share similar musical traits with these newcomers; a dreamy, psychedelic alt-pop melodic quality, although…