Good Weather For An Airstrike – Underneath the Stars
Tom Honey didn’t do himself any favours by naming his ambient project after the translated title of a Sigur Rós song – to compare his music to the work to that Icelandic… Read More
Capitals – Jealousy/Sinking Ships
THIS BAND ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO SHOUT ABOUT. They’re called Capitals (you can see what I did there), they’re a duo from Edinburgh that features an ex-member of The Cinematics, and a… Read More
Maverick Sabre – Lonely Are The Brave
I recently saw Michael Stafford hailed as ‘the new Amy Winehouse’. There’s already something wrong with such a comparison: for starters, even at its best, Frank was merely a promising debut album, one… Read More
Jake Bugg – Trouble Town
For such a young man to wear his influences on his sleeve is no crime – there’s quite a lot of Bob Dylan in this song – but he’s taken them and… Read More
Lana Del Rey – Born To Die
Can I be honest for a moment? There is no way in hell Lana Del Rey’s album should be as good as it is. When an album is led by all the… Read More
All The Saints – Intro to Fractions
Repetition works. I didn’t particularly need any reminding of that statement – after all, certain sub-genres of music have already established repetition as their foundations, such as some forms of electronica, not… Read More
Tourist – Placid Acid
Sometimes, all it takes for a song to be great is a melody. Flourishes and additions are all well and good, but a song built on solid foundations and does exactly what… Read More
The Twilight Sad – No One Can Ever Know
There is something about the cover art for the new Twilight Sad [Facebook/Twitter] record that is disturbing. Even for a band who deal in almost exclusively dark imagery, the eye-catching sleeve for… Read More
