Oceaán – Oceaán EP
Last summer, while almost everyone (including me) was too busy listening to Settle on repeat, Oliver Cean, that goes by the stage name of Oceaán, quietly started to make his way through… Read More
Fast Years – Women
The Route One approach works – there may be merit to music being complex and multi-layered, but there are other times when nothing but the most straightforward material will do. It often… Read More
Disclosure – The Face
In the interest of, ahem, full disclosure, I must admit that, before now, I wasn’t entirely sold on Disclosure [Twitter/Facebook]. The duo’s earlier, more dubsteppy material (in particular, the double A-side Street… Read More
Nina Nesbitt – The Apple Tree EP
I wonder how many words will pass before the fact that that this EP’s creator is only 17 is brought up. In the case of this review, the answer is (appropriately enough)… Read More
Stay+ – Arem
The fact that this band used to be called Christian AIDS (until they were threatened with legal action by Christian Aid and forced to change their moniker) should not detract from the… Read More
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
The Ghosts – The End
It would have been tempting for Alex Starling to continue ploughing the same furrow that he’d done while a member of Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, but his new project combines elements… Read More
CYMBALS – Sideways, Sometimes
Some people make music that they take seriously, pouring every piece of themselves into its creation, and some create music for the sheer hell of it. Around this time last year, CYMBALS… Read More
