Maigret Jnr. – Sick Friends
Ever get the feeling, when you’re listening to a song, that it shouldn’t work anywhere near as well as it does? The title track from the debut EP from Ru Davies, AKA… Read More
Tom Hickox – The Angel of the North
For Tom Hickox [Twitter/Facebook], being an accomplished musician would seem to run in the family. He is the son of the late Richard Hickox (CBE), a Grammy-winning conductor, and the mother of… 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
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
Gunning For Tamar – Dark Sky Tourism
Here’s something to get your Monday off to a great start. Gunning For Tamar [Twitter/Facebook] put themselves on our radar with the Time Trophies EP earlier in the year, and seem to have come… Read More
Willy Moon – Railroad Track
When Jack White isn’t busy letting Radiohead record at his studio or releasing his own music, like the fantastic Blunderbuss solo album from earlier this year, he puts out stuff from other artists… Read More
