After a six year break which saw him compose an opera about Tolstoy, 'Sevastopol', for the Royal Opera House and an organ commission for Royal Festival Hall, Neil Hannon is back to the baroque pop majesty of The Divine Comedy. He has returned with their slavishly lavishly produced eleventh…
“Being caught between heaven and earth,” says Kenny Anderson, aka King Creosote (KC), about the feeling he has in exploring the tension and harmony between tradition and technology; between analogue and digital philosophies. Hence the title, Astronaut Meets Applemen, heaven and earth, digital and analogue, rootsy rusticness and binary…
Do you remember the awful 1990s CBBC programme, The Queen’s Nose? There would always be that scene where the juveniles in charge of the precious coin would place their hands upon it and spin off into some parallel universe where everything would be a touch disorientating. Thee Oh Sees’…
With an industry in free fall and the album increasingly becoming an irrelevant form in an age of streaming and instant downloading it’s heartening that an album can still be an event. Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade, and Kanye West streaming The Life of Pablo live from Madison Square Garden…
The Hunna, London’s indie quartet, are a band that don’t come around very often. As the myth goes, this time last year they were in a band that wasn’t really going anywhere. Yes they played regular gigs and rehearsed, but they weren’t setting the world on fire. Nothing unusual…
That facial hirsute look is prevalent these days, especially amongst musicians. A bit like Marmite, it inspires love and hate. There seems to be little middle ground, especially amongst girls, who are in the frontline, so to speak, of their hairy, or otherwise, partners. Mr. McMorrow was at…
The legendary De La Soul are back 27 years after they released their ground-breaking debut 3 Feet High And Rising. Not only did it introduce the ‘skit’ (interlude) to hip-hop, their experimental hip-hop beats with unrelenting positive vibes helped save hip-hop music from its then ever-increasing gangster-rap posture. Over…
When listening to pop duo All Tvvins you’d be forgiven for thinking that they’d always been in pop bands. Their music is full of references about the darker side of relationships, but also hints that things do get better and all you need is a little faith and self-belief…
Sumach Ecks, AKA Gonjasufi, first appeared on the scene seven years ago with the single ‘Holidays/Candylane’. Since then he’s released two genre defining albums, a slew of singles and a remix album. Now Ecks is about to release his third album CALLUS, and as A Sufi and A Killer…
Glass Animals’ début album Zaba, released in 2014, has sold nearly half a million copies worldwide and gained over 200 million Spotify streams so far, exceeding all the initial expectations placed on the band. This unprecedented rise to popularity came primarily through keen fans who have been sharing the…