By Tom Johnson I guess all any of us, as both consumers and fans, want out of a bands second record is to see some progression. On the surface that sounds like a rather empty ...
Stagecoach were one of the first bands we ever featured on GoldFlakePaint, way back in the halcyon days of Summer 2010. Since then we’ve danced, sweated and drank with ...
It’s been some year for Deap Vally. Breaking out out of the LA rock scene is hard enough, but doing it as effortlessly as they have, takes something a little bit specia ...
Side projects, experimental ventures, call them what you like but there’s no getting around the fact that they can be disastrous. For every Atoms Of Peace there’s ...
As well as possessing a name that rings with childhood delight, Polly Scattergood is also graced with a voice that creates a genuine sense of youthful adventure and nostalgia ...
While it’s not necessarily a negative point, it’s certainly true to say that the idea of the ‘album’, as an art-form, no longer holds as much weight a ...
Interview by Tom Johnson There’s something instantly bewitching about Rae Morris. Even before you hear that singing voice you’re intrigued. Rae is a twenty-year o ...
One would hope, for everyone involved, that when starting a full-blown record label just to put out one man’s music, there is, well, some kind of pay-off; financially ...
Words/Interview by Tom Johnson You know when you hear a song and just instantly know you’re going to love everything that band has recorded? Well, say hello to Plastic ...
Interview by Tom Johnson On April 1st, The Leisure Society will return to the spotlight with Alone Aboard The Ark; album number three in a career that has always felt like a ...
Towards the end of April, Belfast’s Champion Sound will release the debut EP from Ryan Vail. It’s been preceded by Fade, a wonderfully hushed electronic journey t ...
August 2013 will play host to the first ever Arctangent festival; and while that whole circuit is becoming more and more saturated each Summer, one look at both the line-up a ...
Interview by Tom Johnson There’s a big difference between being a recording artist and being a ‘voice’. 23 year-old Winston Yellen is a voice. I don’t ...
It’d be a tad conceited of a lowly Audio Antihero like me to think that you might need me to tell you who Jeffrey Lewis is but it’s still kind of my job (like how ...
Slowcoaches are a 3 piece band from Leeds via Nottingham. They play pop songs that have been put through a fuzz blender and make me want to bounce against the walls. I put th ...
2012 has been a long and fulfilling year for Olympians. Their book club series has been an on-going success, they’ve played a host of well-received shows, and they even ...
Being deeply involved in this whole blogosphere malarkey, its easy to sometimes feel like you’re existing within a bubble. Certain artists/tracks seem to take on a life ...
While the current weather and the affect it has upon our music listening is documented in nearly every review written ever between September and March, it is certainly true ...
Discovering Pinback a few years ago was one of those magic moments when a band just drops into your lap at exactly the right moment – and sound completely perfect in do ...
After what seemed to us outsiders as a giant attempted leap at the mainstream with their second, Diplo-produced, LP, Cosmology, Rolo Tomassi returned last month with their th ...
I’m not going to try and pretend to be an expert, but I’m sure there is a lot to be written by someone, somewhere, about the art of the remix. That person, howeve ...
Say we give you an 18-year-old hip-hop artist from London, what do you think of? You’d be forgiven for assuming you’ve heard it all before, but there’s something different ab ...
One of the many things that X-Factor tries to push on its viewers is the idea that a back-story is as, if not more, important than the talent on show. It’s a strange co ...
There has always been a weird and wonderful edge to the Bristol music scene. The occasional oddity that juts out at a strange angle from the rest of the solid but comfortable ...
