Based at the top of the UK in the area of Caithness, Neon Waltz could lay claim to being the country’s most isolated and, as a result, hardest working band. The Scottish group’s debut gathers influences from this rain-soaked area and delivers a stupendous record of intricately crafted, heart-swelling…
Soccer Mommy is the name of one Nashville three-piece fronted by the brilliant mind of Sophie Allison. This band bring a self proclaimed “chill but kinda sad” vibe in the most infectious package imaginable. You may not be familiar with their name but, after a single listen through…
There’s been a lot of excitement surrounding Girl Ray throughout 2017 and not the kind of buzz that turns out to be some blown up brief period of fame either. It’s the thrill of finding a genuinely brilliant new band, teamed with the excitement that a huge chunk of…
“Here’s a simple song, it won’t stop the rain from coming down or your heart from breaking.” If ever an opening line summed up an album and the artist, it is that opener from Mike Rosenberg’s ninth album as Passenger. The Boy Who Cried Wolf was another of those…
Acoustic albums are so often the snore of an artist’s back catalogue – for me they are merely self-indulgent reminders of how great tracks were when they were kept electric and as they were originally intended, rather than vaguely tampered with and diluted to an insipid weaker form.
Alice Cooper is a name which in itself invokes flashbacks to a time where metal was at its peak. The iconic blackened stylings are truly a work of Satan himself and across a five decade career, with some of the most well known tracks in the rock world,…
Arcade Fire are a group synonymous with overblown viral marketing campaigns to promote their new records. Reflektor came with the band declaring themselves ‘The Reflektors’, which led to a fake website, a fake album and secret shows. However, they’ve gone one step further for Everything Now and created a…
Part love-letter to America, part critique of it, America sees former Howling Bells frontwoman Juanita Stein craft a delight which wouldn’t sound out of place pouring from a small-town 1950s diner’s wireless radio.
The debut album from brothers, Eric and Jimi Tormey and bassist Joseph Hunt – otherwise known as Gang – is an unrelenting slip into psych, sludge, and doom. 925 Till I Die is an accumulation of Black Sabbath riffs, warbling, lysergic guitar lines and macerating drums; songs open…
The songwriting duo of Andy Hull and Robert McDowell have always utilised their real life experiences as the spark for their work together as Manchester Orchestra but, fifth time around, they were struggling to find the right spark of inspiration. Their lives were increasingly content and stable (with Hull…