If the name wasn’t enough to manage on its own, this year King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have released four distinctly different records, with Polygondwanaland being the most recent. Despite this unusually high output, this last release of the year from the Australian group displays them at their most…
Producer, engineer, or multi-instrumental musician, Lucas Oswald has his fingers in many pies. After years performing as a touring musician with Shearwater and The Appleseed Cast, he embarked on a long and cathartic songwriting and recording process that resulted in the songs that now make up the deeply personal and…
Stockholm singer Tove Lo is a Grammy nominee who shot to fame with her ‘Habits (Stay High)’ song, which has amassed over 200 million hits on YouTube. Whilst her new album doesn’t have the pure pop sensibilities of the first two records, a greater focus has now been placed…
2017 has been a strange year for the Gallagher brothers. When Oasis initially broke up, Noel was regarded as the more superior brother and “the man who wrote it all”. Yet, with the Jesus-like return of Liam Gallagher with As You Were, the emphasis seems to have switched from…
Paloma Faith is a name which has risen to mass popularity over her past three double platinum records, each stressing the perfect combination of powerhouse vocal strength and pop infection. Now back with another follow up, The Architect, new horizons have definitely been opened to Paloma Faith’s career.
There was a time when Morrissey was one of the most exciting, charismatic and coolest frontmen of all time. Seriously, go and watch The Smiths perform ‘This Charming Man’ on Top of the Pops and tell me it’s nothing less than iconic. The quiff, the deep croon, the eccentric…
OCS have never been a group to stand still for too long. Since 1997 the band have gone by Orinoka Crash Suite, OCS, Orange County Sound, The Oh sees, The Oh Sees, Thee Oh Sees and Oh Sees and, now, landing us back at the beginning with OCS. These shifts represent line-ups, changes of…
There was a hilarious skit on the wireless the other day, where a deadpan comedian asked what the French given us music-wise, beyond Nouvelle Vague, the arch lounge tribute band? From there we were treated to compare and contrast clips for ‘Teenage Kicks’, ‘Heart of Glass’ and ‘Making Plans…
Based along the Washington coastline, Karl Blau’s sound has finally found its way over to the European shores following the release of his debut, Introducing Karl Blau, last year. Now Karl is back with his follow up, Out Her Space, a record crafted of only the biggest and…
Mavis Staples is an icon. Not only was she a member of legendary soul and r’n’b group, The Staple Singers, but she’s a civil rights activist and a fledgling solo artist in her own right. After the last 12 months, which includeed a huge American tour with Bob Dylan…