Releasing his first solo album since the Grammy-nominated LUX in 2012, Brian Eno delivers The Ship. With over 40 years of musical exploration in his glittering career in music, beginning with Roxy Music from 1971-1973, and then going on to release seventeen solo studio albums along with ten ambient…
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are ridiculous on every level. From their work rate, to their album titles, to their name and ultimately to their stage performances. Nonagon Infinity follows their previous release Paper Maché Dream Balloon that was only dropped in September of last year, doing what…
Adam Green’s upcoming feature length film is the re-working of Aladdin with the expected, Adam Green twist. His latest effort on film is his second behind 2011’s The Wrong Ferrari. However it takes a similar DIY ethos as it takes from the previous magic carpets to crash head on…
In my younger and more vulnerable years, I ventured to catch Wire headlining a small tent at a boutique festival. Only being familiar with their first three classic records, I was fairly confident I was going to be treated to a ‘best of’ set typical of a band that’s…
The penchant for the art and dedication to music on behalf of Jeremy Earl, the frontman and founder of Woods, is strong enough to keep the entire Brooklyn music scene running alone; now clocking in with their ninth album in a decade. The distinctive evolution of Woods has been…
Gloomy, atmospheric rock is the hallmark for bands such as Frightened Rabbit. The magnum opus revolves around pulsating rhythms and the darkness of Scott Hutchinson’s Scottish accent; it plays on atmospheres and is dedicated to be the sort that gives you those infamous tingles. Riddled with emotion and sincerity,…
The bedrock of psychedelia and shoegaze music has often dug its heels in with what stipulates that sound. Many have come and had a crack at replicating this, often taking the reverb, drenched wall of sound that My Bloody Valentine largely introduced us to. With this they have found…
The Communion label, formed in 2010 by Ben Lovett of Mumford and Sons, has developed quite the formidable roster over the years, signing the likes of Ben Howard, Michael Kiwanuka, Daughter and Half Moon Run and now they ready themselves for the sophomore effort by Aldershot’s Matthew Hegarty and,…
Tonight Ellie Ford is launching her début album The Other Sun at Bleach and I’m gutted not to be able to make it to the show, although I’m sure one of my colleagues will be there to appreciate the evening and I have to admit I’m a little jealous. I’ve…
Like the Queen, Hawkwind just go on and on. But whereas Her Majesty's stock price continues to drift gently downwards as the realisation continues to dawn that really she's just a woman born into aristocracy and the monarchy, and doesn't do anything much that many others couldn’t easily do,…