Melodica, Melody and Me have undergone a refit and re- emerged simply as The Melodic. Their first offering in the new syllable-efficient guise shows that while the name has changed, the joy of their simple sound has not. They’ve taken…
How can someone so young sing words so sad? That Morrissey line comes to mind when listening to ‘Back To The River’, a deliciously maudlin offering from Lily & Madeleine. “If only my feet could fall as fast as a…
For Civil Wars fans, there’s good news and bad news. Six months after the band called an unceremonious halt to their European tour to take a break amid “internal discord“, Joy Williams and John Paul White have announced a self-titled…
Are you asking? Then Nancy Elizabeth is dancing. The Wigan singer has unveiled an alternative version of the track ‘Simon Says Dance’, one of the stand-outs from her new album Dancing, released later this month. Lyrically it’s a playful track,…
The Magic Numbers are heading out on their first ever acoustic tour later this year as they prepare for the release of their fourth album. The four-piece are avoiding many of the usual live music hot spots and are instead…
Seminal 90s indie stars Neutral Milk Hotel have announced a series of reunion shows for the end of the year. The Athens, Georgia quartet, whose classic 1998 album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea was fourth in Pitchfork’s top 100…
There’s a blissful simplicity to the music of Rae Morris: a voice, a piano and a bucketload of emotion. In musical style it recalls Regina Spektor at her most mellow, while there’s a touch of Dark Dark Dark’s Nona Marie…
Please do not confuse the Frisbys with one or more fris-bees. Far from being named after something you might toss away, they take their name from the harmonising twins at their core, Helen and Nicola Frisby. Together with Sam Keer…
That The Staves’ two-day residency at London’s Scala coincides with a brief heat wave in the capital may be no coincidence: more warmth radiates from the audience to the stage and back again over the course of their set than…
Shot amid industry and decay against background of blue skies and water, this video – which unbelievably is Hannah Peel’s first – is a perfect visualisation of the tensions that are more prevalent than ever in her music. Peel has…