Dog Is Dead – Talk Through the Night
The wheels are starting to turn for Dog Is Dead [Twitter/Facebook]in earnest, now that their debut album finally has a release date. It’s still a little over two months away, of course… Read More
Fighting With Wire – Waiting on a Way to Believe
If you enjoy having your socks rocked off on a Thursday afternoon, then the new single from Fighting With Wire [Twitter/Facebook] will be right up your street. Taken from their long (long,… Read More
Cinnamon Girl – Devil In Me
Yet another storming electro-pop song emerges from Scandinavia, leaving me at a loss to explain how the hell the region’s managing to produce music this accomplished all the time. We’ve been here… Read More
Drop Out Venus – I Kill Foxes
“This is the saddest song I’ve ever written, and I borderline hate it.” So says the frontwoman of London-via-Bulgaria ‘junk jazz’ trio Drop Out Venus [Twitter/Facebook]. It’s not exactly a ringing endorsement,… Read More
Introducing: PYYRAMIDS
Sometimes chance meetings can lead to brilliant chemistry. Brought together by a mutual friend, the two people that make up PYYRAMIDS [Twitter/Facebook] (ex-He Say She Say singer Drea Smith and OK Go’s… Read More
The Script – #3
Far be it from me to immediately come out all defensive when writing a review, but I’m well aware that liking a band like The Script isn’t the ‘cool’ thing to do.… Read More
Kodaline – Perfect World
In a perfect world, this band would already be a big deal, but the new song from Dublin’s Kodaline [Twitter/Facebook] would seem to suggest that they’d be perfectly OK with such a thing.… Read More
Sam Flax – Fire Doesn’t Burn Itself
Pysch-pop, when not done well, can come across as a barrage of conflicting ideas. Songs in that genre are often so layered and nuanced that if just one element is out of… Read More
