Various Cruelties – Various Cruelties
The never-ending arguments about the decline or even death of originality in music are becoming increasingly irrelevant, in my eyes. What is most important is not what a band do, but instead,… Read More
Grimes – Visions
Hmm. I still haven’t made up my mind. About the album artwork, I mean – Grimes’s [Facebook/Twitter] third album is brilliant, and I’ll get to that in a little bit, but first… Read More
Jessica Jalbert – Brother Loyola
Brother Loyola is the debut album from Jessica Jalbert (twitter/bandcamp) and what a way for the Canadian songstress to make an entrance. Released this week, Brother Loyola takes you on a journey… Read More
Ben Sommers – Avocado Chip
Ben Sommers (facebook/twitter) has taken this whole story-telling through music to beyond its normal four-minute boundary to a whole album in the form of Avocado Chip and a accompanying novel. I’ve embedded… Read More
Lightguides – Samba Samba Samba
The thundering and tumultuous pop-rock of Lightguides (facebook/twitter) has been described variously as simply “Scottish rock” after the successes of bands such Biffy Clyro or personal favourites of mine We Were Promised… Read More
Oh Minnows – For Shadows
I’ve been closely following Oh Minnows ever since I got my paws on their debut Might EP a couple of years ago, but Chris Steele-Nicholson is now back with his first full length… Read More
Sparrow & The Workshop – Spitting Daggers
Spitting Daggers is second album from The Sparrow and the Workshop (Facebook/ MySpace) and it does not fall where many second albums do. Even from the album title, you can tell that… Read More
Oh No Oh My – People Problems
I featured Oh No Oh My‘s I Have No Sister on our Best of 2006 Mixtape at the end of the first year of this blog’s life (back when their name had… Read More
