For a band whose energy is one of their greatest attributes, it’s great to hear Keston Cobblers’ Club taking a lower-octane approach with this excellent track from 2011. It’s an understated treat, and gives real weight to the swell and…
In an ideal world, you’d want to allow an artist – particularly one of the quality of Rosanne Cash – to stand on her own terms rather than constantly link her to her famous parents. Cash, though, is making it…
Recorded in April of last year at the legendary Ryman Auditorium, Band of Horses’ latest offering feels very much like one following in the footsteps of Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged in New York. Having released and toured their fourth record, Mirage…
July is Marissa Nadler’s sixth full-length album release since 2004 and is arguably her most compelling work to date. The slow-paced melancholy style and subject matter are familiar, but the delivery is now more certain and sure-footed. Opening track ‘Drive’…
Five years and two months have fair rattled by since the first and last time your reviewer witnessed a Let’s Wrestle live show, supporting the tour-raw Vivian Girls in a Leeds upper room, their fiery art-rock assault pointing persuasively to…
‘I’ll start with a scale pattern… and once I’ve found the stride, I simply close my eyes and drift away, simply leave the work to my fingers. And somewhere along the line a kind of notion will prick my ears.’…
Snowbird, the project of Simon Raymonde and Stephanie Dosen, create music lush instrumentation, with an abundance of echo, both on guitars and vocals. Electronica fused with a strong folk song-writing style gives Moon a distinctive sound, and makes for an…
Laura McGarrigle, or Gaze is Ghost, is an Irish singer-songwriter based in Cambridge, by way of Paris, India and Sweden. A crafter of beautiful, multi-instrumental, genre-blending folk, she reminds us of French innovator Camille, or experimental composer Sasha Siem. We…
Crosby – long-time recording colleague of Nash, often Stills and sometimes Young – returns with his first solo album since 1993, and a real treat for fans old and new. Opener ‘What’s Broken’ is illuminated by Mark Knopfler’s guitar playing…
On first listening to Falling Faster Than You Can Run, I found myself facing each track expecting something rather dramatic from the musical accompaniment, and it didn’t arrive. There’s no wailing violin at the songs emotional peaks, no wave of…