Dungen, for those unfamiliar are the etherial sounding atmospheric-rock quartet who hail from the Northern-most point of rural Sweden. Fronted by the group’s soundscape architect, Gustav Ejstes, Dungen have put together nothing short of eight studio albums prior to their 2016 release, Häxan. As a teenager Ejstes was obsessed…
Seven years after his solo debut album Grace/Wastelands Pete Doherty is back, releasing his latest creation Hamburg Demonstrations on the 2nd of December 2016. The Babyshambles/Libertines frontman’s debut was generally well received by music critics in 2009, with The Observer stating the album said “goodbye to Pete Libertine the…
Birdeatsbaby almost managed to sneak their fourth album TANTA FURIA beneath our local new music radar, which isn’t so surprising when you consider how outward looking the band have grown: setting their sights on distant shores in Europe and the Americas. I think it would be fair to call them…
A Tribe Called Quest’s tracks need no introduction, as any half hip-hop fan will be able to recognise either their genius jazzy samples or supreme silky flow near on instantly. As part of the pioneering positive-minded hip-hop collective Native Tongues, the New York act formed originally as a quartet…
If you believe the media then New York is full of cupcake start-up shops, rap beefs and punks. One experimental pop quintet is trying to change all that. Their name is Pavo Pavo and they’ve just released one of the most eagerly awaited albums of the year. After meeting…
Inuit throat singer and artist Tanya Tagaq won the Polaris Prize for best Canadian album in 2014 for Animism, a work of primal beauty and extreme musicality, that had at its centre ancient exhalation and inhalation vocal techniques. In isolation those sounds are extraordinary, in the hands of someone…
Female-fronted slacker rock seems to be the gift that keeps on giving in 2016, regardless of what Trump may say. Palehound, Courtney Barnett and Speedy Ortiz are three names that are deepening the groove and Brooklyn’s Forth Wanderers look to embellish that further. They are no half-arsed addition…
I first came across Will Varley via a compilation that Lewes based record store and label, Union Music, put out last year in response to the General Election. A collection of ‘protest songs’ where his contribution, ‘The Sound of the Markets Crashing’, was a particularly gloomy rendering of society’s…
The Scottish duo have come clattering into their second LP, Babes Never Die with as much vigour and force as they crammed into their debut back in 2014. The first single from the album, ‘Ready For The Magic’ has been a stable part of Lauren Laverne’s 6music show of…
Back in 2008, whilst also playing with Sons of Noel and Adrian, Danny Green formed Laish as a vehicle for his own song-writing. Becoming part of the much-feted Willkommen Collective, at the centre of Brighton’s alternative scene, Laish had released a couple of self-produced albums recorded in Green’s Brighton…