From the opening bars of plonking piano, you can tell this is an album that will do everything it can to joyously revive your faith in modern pop music. Despite the disregarding title of her third album, Like It Never…
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Did you have fun? Was it great? Was it full of port and disgusting levels of over-indulgence? Having spent a good couple of days as a statistic ‘home without power’ I thankfully saw Christmas through with a…
A debut offering from Mutual Benefit – a loose collective of musical collaborators surrounding frontman Jordan Lee, with no fixed lineup – Love’s Crushing Diamond nevertheless seems to have a cohesive vision, circling from beginning to end. The record opens with ‘Strong…
Icelandic folk-star Asgeir’s In the Silence sees a magical combination of acoustic folk and electro-pop, blending into a distinct style, which, while drawing heavily on influences from other mainstream alt-folk acts, notably Bon Iver and Mumford and Sons, finds its…
I Break Horses’s debut record, Hearts, was one of the best records of 2011. It frequently appeared on end of year lists around the globe, and the dark electronic pop music which seeped through the veins of the album produced…
For your first listen to the long-awaited second album from this Californian group, I seriously suggest you make time, plug in some seriously good speakers and allow yourself to just listen. In other words, do not ‘make do’ with some…
The Pollyanna Band is a collaboration between Polly Paulusma and Annie Dressner or, we prefer to think of them, ‘a coming together of two titans.’ Make them your favourite new band of 2014. Hello, please introduce yourself and your music…
Following the release of his fourth album, ‘Country Mile’ and a string of sold out shows, folk rocker Johnny Flynn has announced he will be playing six UK dates in the Spring of 2014. Along with these six UK dates,…
Sumie’s eponymous new album shows off an array of haunting melodies, her voice floating on top of intricate trance-inducing broken guitar chords. An exercise in the stripped down, most of the tracks feature only her vocals and guitar, with occasional…
You might expect When We Lived in the Crook of a Tree to be a collection of winsome, woolly songs about treehouses. Nope. The first words are: “There once grew a tree, ten flimsy branches on it, that used to…