Seven albums in fourteen years isn’t to be sniffed at. Nor is 20 years in a band and still finding new things to be inspired about, but this is exactly where Biffy Clyro find themselves. Their latest album Ellipsis, basically means using more words than necessary, finds them writing…
Roísín Murphy, the Irish singer-songwriter, has returned to music once more for her fourth full-length LP. Her appearance in music over the past 11 years has been sporadic to say the least, releasing short bursts of albums as opposed to a continuous string. Various disillusionments with the record industry…
Blood Orange, aka Devonte Hynes, is an extraordinary artist. Prolific, versatile and with a gift for songwriting and music in general, it's largely not known that he originally came to notice as one of the indie noise rockers Test Icicles, who released one album back in 2005 before he…
“I have somewhere to go now / Where it is I don’t know”, croons Gun Overbye and it is this lyric that seems to sum up the overall ideology of Lola Colt as a group. A band that are there to direct adventure with no real destination in sight.
These days, some things are always certain to be brought along with the change of seasons. A disappointing polling result, freakish and ominous weather or a new project from absurdly prolific, DIY garage rocker Ty Segall. Having already brought out the best album he’s ever made at the beginning…
With a healthy nod towards the vintage folk-soul of the likes of Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes and Terry Callier, employing retro-black and white imagery across the board, Michael Kiwanuka helped to spearhead a movement towards a more honest, raw, and nostalgic sound and sensibility. Taking us back…
The debut release on the subsidiary of the distinguished soul label, Daptone Records falls at the feet of The Mystery Lights. To say they have been thrust under the spotlight with Wick Records is a horrendous understatement by all account. This is old news though that has been…
It’s firstly in the name. The band name, Beyond The Wizards Sleeve is something that has been missing from music for a while, the audacity that artists can use within names – for too long they have succumbed to the iTunes era, sticking to colourless norms as opposed to…
Deerhoof are an incredible band, they are so original, so different, so fun. I'm ashamed to say that despite seeing them live twice, and having been completely blown away on both occasions, I've never bought any of their albums. I'm not quite sure why. I guess on some level…
Recently whilst scrambling for the roots of my sadistic music obsession I realised my first real turn-on was watching a video by five gangly men performing their latest single, ‘Count In Fives’. This band later turned out to be The Horrors. Fuzzy guitar cut through in a vein of The…