Young Hunting | Hazel Words by Lee Adcock If you cringe at the prospect of a summer laden with sunny pop, Young Hunting may be your salvation this year. This five-piece dream ...
Just Handshakes | Say It Words by Matt Yau If you think indie is beginning to lose its edge, we wouldn’t blame you; it’s certainly not like the halcyon days of the noughties. ...
Words by Lee Adcock Cohesiveness has never been a strong-point for those quirky sisters of CocoRosie. From the shambling, archival ruin of their debut to the spotty slush of ...
Words by Jamie “No.1 Fan” Hallaman. So, we’ve talked the talk about Wakefield artist Salvage My Dream a wee bit before and we’ve never had anything bu ...
It’s been a couple of years in the making but Glasgow four-piece Three Blind Wolves are finally set to release their debut album, Hallelujah For The Old Machine, on May ...
Words by Tom Johnson Mesita’s firm under-the-radar stance is a continued frustration. It’s not that he’s under-appreciated at all – his fan-base is a ...
Words by Tom Johnson There’s a spirited playfulness that creeps out from the opening few bars of Filberts new record, Chronographic – and its an exuberance that m ...
Track-by-track | Adventure Gun by Olympians Mountains Mountains was actually the first song me and Ben wrote together quite a few years ago and I can’t really remember ...
Track by Track | Fortress by Helen Hamilton, Death Rattle White Ropes A song of contrasting positive and negative emotions, White Ropes touches on the conflicts of my inner ...
Words by Mark Robinson Now this is an interesting one. Dead Gaze by Dead Gaze (the moniker for Mississippi’s R. Cole Furlow) is a furious slice of noise-pop. The ‘noise’ this ...
Words by Ryan Barham It’s a crucial time for Phoenix as they prepare to release their fifth album ‘Bankrupt!’. Their first release since 2009’s mainstream breakthrough ‘Wolfg ...
Following on from a couple of EP’s and a growing reputation as one of the finest live bands on the local circuit, Edinburgh electro-wizkids Homework released their debu ...
Words by Ryan Barham Starting off as a two-piece from Philadelphia, Hands regrouped to Los Angeles, doubled in size and ideas and now present their debut album Synesthesia, r ...
Words by Mark Robinson Canada… it’s something in the water over there. They just know how to create better music than the rest of us. Case in point: Adverteyes and their newe ...
Words by Sammy Maine Howling Owl Records have had a busy year. Following on from the success of last year’s Record Store Day special release, the label have added more ...
Words by Tom Johnson There are fewer more evocative instruments than the vocal chords of Mark Kozelek. As the voice of Sun Kil Moon and Red House Painters, his deep, worn and ...
Words by Aled Schell Tell Where I Lie is a momentous step in what has been a lengthy musical journey for Jonny Hooker and David Fendick. The two-piece from Leeds have been on ...
Words by Benjamin Shaw Everybody knows, outside of Wakefield, there is no-one that does guitar-pop quite like the Australians. On average, them underneath spew out a pop gem ...
Face To The Soil A short story inspired by Phosphorescent’s ’Muchacho’ LP Words by Tom Johnson There were stories, like there are in any town. Always a fri ...
Words by Tom Johnson Yesterday I walked to work in the snow. I think it was snow anyway, though not of the like I’ve ever seen before. Large particles, not falling to t ...
Words by Robert Jurewicz Hailing from the town that gave us TOWIE, Essex-lad Stuart Howard released his When You’re Gone EP last year to universal acclaim. This year sees the ...
Words by Matthew Healy What is the sound of a conquering animal? Is it a bark? A howl? A roar? On Floating Bodies is none of these. These sounds are distinctly feral, and alm ...
Words by Katie Malcolmson Anna-Lynne Williams has a voice that is familiar and wise. She writes under the pseudonym, ‘Lotte Kestner’ and she likes to keep things simple – hav ...
Words by Jamie Hallaman Here’s a good one. Norway’s Eivind Kirkeby of Lonely Boy returns as “90% of” The Society Of Poor Academics with a brand new album. You may remember TS ...
