School of Night is the solo project of The Antlers’ Darby Cicci, who describes this EP as ‘futuristic church music, mixed with sugary pop’. That seems about right, although it also sounds a bit like a daydreaming alien, or a…
Dear readers, You may have suspected that I would jump on the sporting bandwagon and create a playlist around the greatest of all competition anthems, Vangelis’ Chariots of Fire because of the ‘Games’ that people are getting all worked up…
“We want to thank you guys for being here,” says Peter Silberman as he surveys the enraptured Koko crowd. “We have no idea how we got here, and we don’t know how to get back.” A chilly Thursday night in…
The Antlers’ last release, 2009’s Hospice, was many things – a story of love and loss, a tragedy, an allegory, a (say it softly) concept album – and could be described in many ways – emotional, heartwrenching, shattering, beautiful. To…
Kings Cross is an area lacking identity over and above being a major travel hub. The immediate vicinity is a tableau of inner city post-industrial decline and recent attempts at regeneration which have, in the main, failed. The venue for…
We’ve gone through the folkier end of the festival calender, and hereby bring you our picks. You won’t find any news on Glastonbury or Reading and Leeds, mind. We’re here to tell you about the things you might not have…