The hype surrounding this album over the past year or two has kept the music industry so firmly on the tips of their toes that now they can’t help but prance around with the elegance of a ballerina. The Last Shadow Puppets have flickered in and out of the…
The Welsh trio that grew up amongst the dirge of indie-landfill somehow managed to sidestep the majority of it on the way through the murky mediocrity of late 00s music, producing music that harked back to early 90s American post-rock. It took from the likes of Tool, The Smashing…
This cult band like to describe their music as 'cathartic mini-symphonies'. It's wholly instrumental, and based around a small set up of guitars, drums, bass, and keys/effects. They don't see themselves as a post-rock band at all, but simply a rock band. But their music is better defined…
Jurado has been with us for a while now – this is his 12th album – but there's no doubting his continual restless artistic spirit that once saw him as a solo alt-folk type troubadour, before he turned his attentions to the more expansive, exploratory, conceptual and psychedelic flavours…
Black Peaks are a tricky band to sum up. If you listened to just the first 20 seconds of the opening track on their début album Statues you could mistakenly think they are a hardcore metal band. Instead they are more like 90s bands Jane's Addiction or Faith No…
Underworld are in an elite group of British super-musicians who ruled the 90s and 00s electronic world – including The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Orbital and Brighton’s own Fatboy Slim. They created a new scene and arguably paved a new way of life for the then youth, being an…
Never ceasing to surprise, James have over 34 plus years morphed from Factory label indie pop underdogs into something closely approximating stadium favourites. For sure, they have never attained A-league proportions, but by golly they have come close, attaining an uncommon level of love and support over the years…
Echoing social injustice, deep rooted political matters and the personal isolation that can come with such matters is a brave, determined move by an American group – particularly when it exists upon on the cusp of one of the most interesting political dilemmas that has ever graced the nation.
Upon first listening to Guilty of Love, it is a wickedly hard album to place, it draws on so much pop-sensibility but without really clarifying its true origins. Then you find yourself reaching out for a chair to try and summarise it, trying to work it out, puzzling over…
Kiran Leonard’s first album on Moshi Moshi Records, Grapefruit, follows a flurry of recent output. Just go to his bandcamp page and you’ll be astounded at the amount of EPs he’s produced in his tender years, and that collection of recordings doesn’t even include the 2012 debut album, Bowler…