I’ve had my eye on Outfit for some time now, an exciting five piece from the Wirral who released a brilliant EP, Another Night’s Dreams Reach Earth Again in 2012, followed by a promising debut album, Performance, in 2013. I’ve also seen them perform on the same bill as…
Album Reviews
Gaps – In Around The Moments
Rachel Butt & Ed Critchley met at school in Coventry, but after a lengthy time apart became reacquainted in Brighton and formed GAPS. After a string of minimalistic releases, they made an unlikely pairing with legendary House DJ Maya Jane Coles making the brilliant In Day, In Dark EP…
Ciro Romano – Founder of Neapolitan Music
I was originally a corporate lawyer and then ran business affairs at Universal Music for a few years before I set up Neapolitan. As well as Love Supreme, we run Nocturne at Blenheim Palace and we are currently developing a third event. We also have a small record label which has included…
Matthew the Oxx – First Aid For the Drowning
Most probably a name you will not be familiar with, but since arriving back in this country in 2013 after a few years living in Australia, this prolific singer songwriter is starting to make inroads in to the public's consciousness, thanks in part to repeated plays on BBC 3 and…
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
Unknown Mortal Orchestra are comprised of singer, guitarist and songwriter Ruban Nielson (formerly of The Mint Chicks), bassist Jake Portrait and Riley Geare. After releasing ‘Ffunny Ffrends’ on Ruban’s Bandcamp profile with no information on who the song is credited to, bloggers attempted to find out the songs creator,…
Gengahr – A Dream Outside
Gengahr are a fantastic young four-piece from North London who have brought out their début album this summer following a great breakthrough year which saw them touring with the likes of Alt-J, Maccabees, Dry The River and Jungle. No doubt they picked up plenty of new fans along the way…
Django Django – When Saturn Returns
When they recorded their debut, and self-titled album, they did so by patching up whatever drums they had, and various musical paraphenalia. It was a home recording for all intents and purposes, made on a PC, and yet it resonated very strongly with the more sophisticated, 60s art-pop and…
James Bay – Chaos and the Calm
From the home counties and little market town of Hitchin, via Brighton's BIMM where he honed is craft and graduated with a degree in Professional Musicianship, to the intensely competitive environment of the Nashville scene, centre of the country/rock musical universe, James Bay is having to quickly adapt to his…
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis – Loin des Hommes
The tensions between music and film, especially those created in isolation, can, as Cave has observed, create ‘…suddenly something quite magical…’ Together, with musical colleague Warren Ellis, this is what they have attempted to do with Director David Olehoffen’s Loin des Hommes (Far From Men), a triple prize-winner at the…
Paul Weller – Saturns Pattern
Paul Weller is one of those long-serving giants of British rock music, he seems to be an ever-present face in the UK album charts but their seems to be a bit of extra buzz in the air for his latest record. Saturn Patterns is his 12th solo album and…