Gengahr took us all by surprise and dropped a new EP earlier this week: Tired Eyes proceeds a deluxe version of their début album A Dream Outside, which came out on 30th of September with four additional tracks. Both coincide with a UK tour that begins here in Brighton next…
Brighton based experimental duo Dog In The Snow release their first EP through local label Love Thy Neighbour this October. It's a collection of three atmospheric songs blending singer/guitarist Helen Ganya Brown's distinctive vocal with electronics from collaborator and visual artist Eva Bowan. The band have been very warmly…
With The Early Years EP, their first release on Rough Trade earlier this year, Girl Band presented themselves as an extremely promising group, spewing out a sound equally indebted to contemporary strains of electronic and dance music as it was to punk and noise rock. But instead of just inserting…
Demob Happy are one of those bands who will appear, to the casual observer, to have come from nowhere – but that's not really the case. Press play on their début album and while it may seem to have just appeared, perfectly formed and effortless this belies the fact…
And so the post-punk veterans are back, 35 years after they released their first post-Joy Division record, and proceeded to write much of the history of leftfield electro-pop, forever epitomised by 'Blue Monday'. Despite the massive trawling of their lives and the often public displays of animosity (mostly…
The eponymous début album from Sexwitch, a collaboration between Natasha Kahn (Bat For Lashes), TOY and producer Dan Carey, features six cover songs, mostly of tracks you will not have heard of, that will turn up little more than Sexwitch references from a Google search. In fact these songs…
Are the Lawrence brothers, AKA Disclosure, the modern day Stock, Aitken and Waterman? Still ridiculously young at 21 and 24, Guy and Howard seem to have the same uncanny knack of turning everything they touch into radio sex. Think about it, swap Lorde for Kylie or Sam Smith for…
What must it be like to be Keith Richards, a man so recognisable and so wealthy, for practically all his adult life, that to engage in normal human activities within normal human environments must be generally out of the question? How does one live as a human being in…
A classical instrument virtuoso from a young age turned pop experimentalist extraordinaire; Mica Levi is one of those people whose talent is so large it seems to cause a constant restlessness to her output. Whether its working with The Shapes or producing Bafta nominated movie scores, it often seems…
My first experience of Battles was a baptism of fire. A friend offered me a spare ticket to their Concorde 2 show and, “no, I didn't have to pay for it: as a proper music fan I just needed to see this band,” he'd said! What an endorsement and…