Now making his debut with the US indie label, Dead Oceans (also home to Slowdive, Japanese Breakfast and Shame), Kane Strang is the New Zealander that is making throbbing indie-rock, bearing similarities to the likes of Car Seat Headrest and Cloud Nothings. Two Hearts and No Brain follows…
The title of John Smith’s fourth album, Headlong, conjures up images of an unstoppable journey at a rapid speed. In that vein, let’s cut straight to the chase and say that this is a stunning piece of work which will permanently reside on many people’s turntables and playlists. The…
The electronic project from Montreal’s Airick Asher Woodhead, Doldrums is a project with a mind for capturing both the inventive and disturbed. Now, with his new ten-piece record, Esc, Doldrums have certainly been able to take their sound to completely new heights.
Floating Points began as the solo project from neuroscience PhD and enigmatic persona, Sam Shepherd. Sam has been able to build quite the name for himself through his musical career, finding himself touring with the likes of The xx and playing festivals and gigs across the globe. Now,…
Deeply political and fiercely defiant, The Underside of Power is part album, part call to action. It grieves and rages in equal measure as it dissects the black experience of the contemporary West – in a decidedly literary fashion. At the same time it stretches far beyond the musical…
In a recent interview with Brightonsfinest, Goldie gave it the veritable large one: “I’ll wait for the enemies to come out, the ones that hate on you. They hate you because they are projecting themselves onto you, and they are not doing it. And they’ll go, ‘Fuck!' 'Fuck!!’ He's…
Meadowlark is the brainchild of Bristol duo Kate McGill and Dan Broadley, and the latest act to enter the ever-more crowded field of ambient electropop. Ambitions are high with their debut album, Postcards, and the use of Spike Stent (Haim, CHVRCHES) indicates the kind of market they are…
Having been around on the Brighton scene since the turn of the decade, Common Tongues have finally released a full length début album. Divisions captures the last two years of the group’s songwriting, seeing them emerge from the folky acoustic ballads of their early EP’s with a more contemporary…
The idea behind Funk The Format is a good one – a festival made by a local for the locals, with no big corporate companies from out of town leaching in on the weekend utopia. The festival, which is in its fourth year, is the idea of Lucy…
There’s a break in the heatwave this morning. I’m sitting by my window looking out over Brighton whilst scrambling about organising the rest of the day accompanied by GAPS. I was sent the album unexpectedly and admittedly not knowing very much about the group to begin with. After doing…