Amazon.co.uk Widgets Fujiya & Miyagi are a bit of a cult Brighton success, having formed here around university friends at the very beginning of the 00s. They rose to prominence from around 2003 onward as releases started getting positive coverage in the music press and their songs…
Cut by Connan Mockasin and ex-Late of the Pier member, LA Priest, Soft Hair is a prime example of when the weird and wonderful of music collides into the narcissistic artist. Soft Hair are everything you love and loathe simultaneously, it’s sickly sweet, fantastically inventive and also full of…
There is a lot of love for Lambchop across the musical board and it’s easy to see why. For over two decades the band has been continuingly curating an unpretentious patchwork of emotionally deep and spectacularly beautiful music. In that time, Kurt Wagner (the creative mind behind the collective)…
Tigercub are a three-piece from Brighton that have been kicking about for about five years and have grown a great reputation as a live band. Abstract Figures in The Dark is their first album release and from the very beginning you can tell it’s a well polished affair.
Top bloke, that Mark Stewart. In person he can talk for England; opinionated and knowledgeable, and often with a humorous, self-mocking tone, in that distinct Bristol brrr. He also wears his politics on his sleeve; a continuing distrust of big business, big government, and a conspiratorial wariness that stays…
The rich and sultry sound of Palace has earned them well-deserved recognition in their short life as a band. The friends, consisting of Leo Wyndham (vocals, guitar), Rupert Turner (guitar), Will Dory (bass) and Matt Hodges (drums), have certainly taken their time in producing their first album, and their reasoning…
“Yes, surrender to the experience. If troubled times come, let’s embrace it with a kiss, then let go. Very simple.” So goes the wise man as recorded by Sebastian Pringle whilst on a long sabbatical and ‘research’ holiday in Central America. Edited down from a 20 minute monologue, ’Simplicito’…
Big Box of Chocolates doesn’t give much away about the sound of an upcoming album, and it definitely doesn’t mirror the velvety rich sound I was expecting to come from Hooton Tennis Club’s second album. Scuzzy guitars and unhinged tunes make this album a toast to mid-twenties angst and…
This is turning into a particularly interesting moment for Leonard Cohen watchers. After David Bowie caught us with our collective pants down, so to speak, we seem to be on heightened alert, looking for signs – any signs – that this 'boudoir poet' is about to kick the bucket,…
When I first heard the heavy-riffing, 60s-girl-group-checking, and yet ultra-modern sounding 'Holy Commotion', the teaser single for the new Pretenders album, my head filled with questions. Most principally: where has Chrissie Hynde been? How does she still sound this good? And who are these new Pretenders? Pretenders’ latest return…