Rightfully titled Yak, this three-piece are a little more than your average oxen. Particularly noted for their high tempo, shattering live performances, Yak are now in a position to drop their debut, self-released album Alas Salvation. An album that promises saviour but possesses more sins within the lurid rock’n’roll…
Defying all assumptions of how the music industry works in its upper echelons, James Blake – a pale lanky English guy who started off making progressive dubstep on tiny independent dance labels – has become virtual pop royalty. He’s written and appeared on songs with Beyonce and Drake and…
Ethical and environmental concerns have always been very high on the agenda for the Brighton-based band, no more so than on this, their fourth long player. "In a state of suspended animation are the awesome creatures, the leviathans that have roamed the earth since the beginning of time, reeking…
With The Great Escape Festival coming through town once a year, it gives you the great excuse (if you needed one) to delve through the eclectic mix of incredible new emerging talent on the festival bill. With over 500 acts to go through, you are bound to find at…
In that notorious online letter Eagulls wrote a few years back – which has come to unjustly overshadow their music – the main sense you get is a frustration at bands leaving behind a legacy of music that sounds like it’s from the UK in favour of pursuing global…
So Radiohead have a new album, but I guess you heard about it already, right? It has been hard to escape in the world of social media – most of my timeline has been buzzing with various shades of sycophantic adoration since the record dropped on Sunday and frankly,…
This group have caused some rumblings around Brighton in the lead up to the release of this EP. After a few listens through When Golden Morning Comes, it’s easy to see why. Sam Jordan’s distinctively powerful voice acts as an immediate hook, but the band are not so transient…
In the tradition of hard working, travelling troubadours, Irishman Foy Vance is right up there with some of very best, helped along by his association with Ed Sheeran, and the millions of fans that come with that. He's toured with him all over the world, and they've written songs…
In Kafka’s short story ‘A Country Doctor’ a doctor travels to inspect a young man. Upon arrival he discovers a wound as ‘gapingly obvious as a mine-shaft… worms, the length and thickness of my little finger, roseate and also coated with blood, are writhing against the inside of the…
It is quite the touching choice to pick a band such as Beak> (don’t forget the crocodile bite!) to soundtrack perhaps 2016’s most unnerving, fear-inducing British horror since Eden Lake. For those who have yet to see Couple In A Hole, it is essentially the story of a Scottish…