In case you’ve been living under a rock somewhere then you might have sussed that Hull is flying the flag for City of Culture this year. A cause for celebration and also a cause for showing people where Hull is – which is more than just on the…
I’m going to be honest with you folks, I didn’t really know what to expect from a Charlatans album in 2017. The last time I was really paying attention to the band was way back in 2001, when Tim Burgess surprised us all with the gorgeous falsetto of ‘A…
Power and purity, Pumarosa are a band who thrive through a dynamic combination of dreamy electronica and intense vocal variation. The Witch is the band’s ten track debut and has certainly put their name on the map, you can be sure that Pumarosa is a name you will…
Next year, The Great Escape (TGE) will host the Unsigned Music Awards (UMA) at Brighton Centre, on Wednesday 16 May. Established just two years ago by former BIMM students Simon O'Kelly, Georgina Thomas and Ben Connor, the first ceremony in 2016 at the Troxy Theatre in London proved to be…
An outburst of emotion, rollercoaster love and frantic riffs, Wavves’ You’re Welcome is the perfect introduction to summer. The album has a 12 tracks which encapsulate everything that represents teenage youth at it’s finest. Buckle up, because this is a record that certainly inflicts a sense of unpredictable…
"I think about how I felt when I wrote the songs and I try to remember that. If I don’t have that, I’m screwed.” So says Aldous Harding, in talking about her startling stage persona, one which features facial contortions, bodily unrest, and what appears to include demonic possession.
It’s a hard trick to pull off what Alex G has done with Rocket. Under the moniker Sandy, Alex G has put together an album that explores and experiments creating an eclectic mix of songs that all fit under the same roof. Rocket truly shows what you can do…
For this latest collaborative effort, Quantic partners with traditional Colombian vocalist Nidia Gongora. It’s a progressive and seamless marriage between the oral folkloric heritage of the country with Quantic’s own style. Jubilant and celebratory, it reflects all the cultural riches of the Afro-Colombian melting-pot, while reimagining and revitalising its…
Spinning out of Peckham off the back of their two recent singles, ‘Peckham Boys’ and ‘1945’ are London’s answer to American country spruced garage-rock. Tangerines pave the way for a whole new British intellect on summer tinted rock’n’roll, obsessing with the sunshine rather than darkness and tugging on…
From the birthplace of both John Martyn and Jamie Woon, New Malden's Luke Sital-Singh seems to be part of an unlikely tradition of singer songwriters from this unassuming corner of South West London. But it was a combination of Brighton and Damian Rice that largely determined Sital-Singh's path to…