Duke Garwood’s Heavy Love opens with the dark, creepy electric blues of ‘Sometimes’. It’s muddy, sexy…and that’s before Garwood’s deep vocals kick in to create a dark fantasy. His bleak storytelling is captivating, with his music setting the scene and…
The role of Fleet Foxes drummer and backing vocalist was never enough to satisfy Joshua Tillman. But there were only a few hints in the solo records he used to put out in his own name as to the scale…
The magic of Emmy The Great’s latest EP is undoubtedly contained within ‘Swimming Pool.’ Make no mistake, the track should be and probably will be heard widely over the course of 2015. It’s a fine slice of modern synthesised pop.…
Was anyone aware that prog-bluegrass-folk existed? And that it could be pulled off not just competently, but thrillingly? Neither was I until I gave The Phosphorescent Blues, Punch Brothers’ fourth album, a spin. A 10-minute opener may not be what…
Vincent Colbert’s debut release is a scorched beauty, a lovely mixture of melody, a fragile yet authoritative voice and astute summing up of the uncertainties of life. The Ann-Arbor based singer-songwriter worked on these five tracks while adjusting to life…
Jib Kidder is the pseudonym of Sean Schuster-Craig, a ‘pop collagist’ signed to Domino’s ‘Weird World’ label. A visual and video artist who describes his music as another form of collage, his playful, psychedelic sound lies somewhere between Dirty Projectors and The Flaming…
Jessica Pratt has created her own strange folk wonderland on her second record. With shades of Nick Drake, and gloomy beguiling spells, there is a sound and songs here to cement the creator’s reputation as a dark folk goddess. It’s…
The deep scar down the centre of Björk’s chest on the cover says plenty about the highly personal, painful content of Vulnicura. It is the hole through which her heart was torn out, through which all the pain and anguish…
Coming only a few months later, Absent Fathers is the flip side to Earle’s last record Single Mothers. Consider it a double album released in two parts. It’s a cracker as well, running in at just over half an hour.…
High hopes were held for this debut from Natalie Prass. The first songs we heard hinted at something of great potential and wonder, inspiring a sense of nostalgia for past music (as seems to be becoming a trend for Spacebomb…