At the time of writing, over Forty-eight hours have passed since the news. The essays and tributes are still flooding in and here I am, still reading them. The reason why is that so many of these eulogies feel so personal and subjective; I’m not reading the same biographical…
2015 was an outstanding year for music. Looking back I am amazed by the depth and breadth of quality releases. In no particular order, some of my favourites were Courtney Barnett’s Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit, Half Moon Run’s The Sun Leads Me On, Nathaniel Rateliff…
A 21st century European band, Daughter have become one of the great success stories of the 'twenty-tens'. Made up of a modest trio of musicians who came together at a music college, and hinging on the inspired and forthright lyricism of Elena Tonra, they have – like most great…
Mercury Music Prize nominated for their debut album Becoming A Jackal in 2010, Conor O'Brien and his band Villagers have proved to be one of the most literate and melodious bands to have emerged in recent years, the follow up albums {Awayland} and Darling Arithmetic both also receiving extensive acclaim…
BrightonsFinest’s Random Electronica: Best Of 2015…
Sonzeira – ‘America Latina’ (Falty DL Remix) Released as part of Gilles Peterson’s Brasil Bam Bam Bass project which saw the legendary tastemaker move to Brazil to pay homage to Latin/ South American music, Falty DL’s Remix of Sonzeira’s ‘America Latina’ is a spicy, percussive yet eternally laidback track that…
A most extraordinary story reached the end of it's riveting first chapter when Benjamin Clementine was announced as the winner of this year's Mercury Music Prize, for his debut album, the aptly entitled, At Least For Now. Although he had quickly crept up as one of the bookies' favourites it…
Band names can sometimes mean nothing, or come across as very silly. Or be so all-embracing that they too lose all meaning. Everything Everything? TV On The Radio? Vampire Weekend, anyone? Then you get something like Fragile Creatures which is a neat encapsulation of humans. Well, as neat as you…
Anyone who has seen the exhaustive, 150 minute The Death and Resurrection Show (and there aren’t many of you, the film has only been witnessed at a small number of film festivals, and is out of circulation for the time being) might remember the beginning montage of news reports and…
"My computer, my iPad and somehow my TV were all screaming at me, that I had a phone call… I've got a bit too much technology, I think I need to get rid of a bit of it." So says Samuel Preston, one time constant tabloid presence and celeb; not…