Rumour Cubes – The Narrow State
As much as I love post-rock, I’m going to come out and say it: the majority of it isn’t very imaginative at all, and can end up sounding like a band ripping… Read More
School of Seven Bells – Ghostory
And then, there were two. The last time we heard from School of Seven Bells, there were three people in the band; and, more importantly, we didn’t think they had an album… 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
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
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
Django Django – Django Django
They say necessity is the mother of invention, and this maxim would seem to be the reason for the existence of a band like Django Django, boldly going where few of their… Read More
First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
I’d like to think I have a fairly broad music taste. (I am a music critic after all, give me some credit please!) However, one of the genres I cannot stand and… Read More
FOE – Bad Dream Hotline
As I write this, it is nine months to the day since Hannah Clark, alias FOE [Twitter/Facebook], released her debut EP, Hot New Trash. When you consider that most bands take a number… Read More
