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…
The opening voice sounds so close to the ears, it’s clear, personal and rings into the distant emptiness. It’s a nice opening. The voice is lovely in fact, though the song doesn’t really do much or go anywhere. It’s lovely…
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…
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…
In the press release for Peggy Sue’s new record, Choir of Echoes, the band described it as “about singing, about losing your voice and finding it again. Choruses, Duets, Whispers and shouts.” True to their word, the first track, eponymously…
The band formerly known as (We are) Augustines have dropped the prefix, due to a legal dispute, and created a new record under the simple name, Augustines. Those who were fans of their debut, ‘Rise ye Sunken Ships’ need not…
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…
There’s something about great music that seems to combine the earthly and the earthy with something a bit more ethereal. A truly great track can be as close as we heathens get to a religious experience. And while Samantha Crain…
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…