Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons met in 1989 at Manchester University and DJ’d at Naked Under Leather and Heavenly Sunday Social. They grew tired of sampling Hip-Hop instrumental tracks, and began creating their own songs using a hi-fi Hitachi system, a computer, a sampler, and a keyboard. The pair…
Kieran Hebden with each year is becoming ever more lauded in the world of music. Having released his first album as Four Tet, Dialougue, in 1998 then coming to prominence with albums Pause (2001) and Rewind (2003), Hebden has only become more relevant and revered as time goes on…
Forget any preconceived ideas of what a bedroom artist is – as C Duncan is the finest example. You could easily imagine that Architect‘s graceful and meticulous sound was recorded somewhere like Abbey Road or the Maida Vale Studios with a large team of top musicians at his disposal –…
Influenced in childhood by her father's Neil Young and Bob Dylan records, and by the more contemporary likes of Jason Molina (Magnolia Electric Company), the plain speaking poetess Samantha Crain is starting to gain some real traction as a singer songwriter of substance. “This album is definitely social…
As music writer Dorian Lynsky says in his foreword, writing a protest song has never been easy, but for any artist who cares deeply about the state of things, then they find a way of articulating that and just see what happens. And, as it happens, many of the artists…
In my eyes, Kevin Parker’s Tame Impala have been one of the most important bands in recent times. Starting out in 2007 as a one-man-band home-recording project in Perth, they are now arguably the biggest band to come out of Australia in recent years. Tame Impala released a self-titled…
Born in the USA, rock'n'roll – originally defined as music that at it's core involved simple melodies, big beats; a fusion of rhythm 'n 'blues with country music – strikes a deep chord within the American psyche. Rock'n'roll á la Elvis, Jerry, Buddy, Chuck et al didn't percolate much…
The Artful Execution of Macho Bimbo is Clowwns long anticipated début album – for those of us who have been following the bands exploits for a while it has been a long wait but press play and this album wastes no time getting straight to the point. 'She…
The moon holds a mystical place amongst us mere mortals. From werewolves, to the belief that A&E wards are at their busiest at the time of a full moon, life on Earth could very well owe its existence to our lunar sister, via tidal cycles and, of course, the…
At this point it’s pretty clear we exist in a culture that fetishizes all things 90’s. We’re now far enough away from the decade that it can easily be reduced to a collection of cultural signifiers, whether its viral videos re-imagining modern TV shows as kitschy 90’s sitcoms or…