Back when I first started buying 45s, Squeeze were often at the top of the wish list: ‘Take Me I'm Yours’, ‘Cool For Cats’, ‘Up The Junction’, ‘Slap And Tickle’, ‘Pulling Mussels (From a Shell)’, ‘Another Nail In My Heart’, ‘Is That Love’…even their cheesy Christmas single, ‘Christmas Day’,…
We like transformations and re-inventions, don't we? It's a mark of an artist searching and discovering, a restless spirit channelled into creative pursuits. The Beatles, Bowie and more recently, Mumford & Sons, have done this, to varying degrees of success. And like Mumford & co, Rateliff has decided to dispense…
For the uninitiated, Kurt Vile is part Dylan, part Iggy, part Petty, yet all Vile with a distinctive style. The War on Drugs co-founder has been turning out solo albums on a regular basis since 2008, and B’lieve I’m Goin Down is his sixth solo release. There’s an interesting…
Nottingham three-piece Kagoule have been hard grafting for three years in the build up to the release of their début album Urth. Released on Nottingham indie label Earache Records, better known for put releasing albums at the extreme end of the metal spectrum, Urth strongly resists categorisation. Yet another…
What Went Down is the fourth album from Oxford's finest indie rockers Foals. It's a solid statement from the band who have not re-written the rulebook but created what is sure to be an excellent, fan-pleasing companion record to 2013's critically acclaimed Holy Fire. What Went Down is full of…
Damon Riddick, a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and producer, better known by his stage name Dâm-Funk has come a long way from his humble beginnings in Pasadena, California. A precocious musical talent, Riddick was taught the drums from a young age and from here he made a natural progression to the…
Two prestigious names coming together is always cause for excitement. In this case we have Tim Presley, an American lo-fi garage rock artist who has worked with The Fall and Ty Segall, and the Welsh Cate Le Bon who has worked with everyone from Neon Neon, Richard James (Aphex…
Beach House is Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally. Together for over a decade, they have become a cult classic before their time – something that no one would have guessed after the release of their first two albums Beach House (2006) and Devotion (2008), which are great yet not…
The so-called Goofball Prince of Indiedom can partly put down his surprising success to the obvious fun he has in public; plenty of pulled faces, nudity, self-deprecation, all enhanced by that gap-toothed smile and a look that resembles a hobo slacker. ie, he doesn't seem to give much of a…
For most readers of BrightonsFinest Gwenno Saunders will be familiar as a member 60s inspired indie pop girl-group The Pipettes where she was a singer and keyboardist. Whilst the music of The Pipettes was an inoffensively well put together throwback, Y Dydd Olaf is a more mature and singular…