It must get boring being constantly compared to another, bigger, more successful band, so let’s get it over with quickly. Yes, Memoryhouse sound a bit like Beach House. They’re both ‘dream pop’, they both have female singers with defined, droney…
Category: Records
Album | Alex Highton – Woodditton Wives Club
Alex Highton’s debut album Woodditton Wives Club is a stark portrait of what modern day Britain is really like. Released at a time when spirits are low and community spirit is almost non-existent, Highton manages to create some light-hearted relief…
Album | Peter Broderick – It Starts Here
The style of Peter Broderick’s new album will be familiar to anyone who’s heard Efterklang, yet he has developed a compelling style of his own, particularly in the piano playing and overlaid instrumentation. Ticking percussion and quiet keyboards emerge softly…
EP | Lissie – Covered Up In Flowers
Lissie has always enjoyed a good cover version. Youtube features almost as many videos of her taking on other people’s songs as her own, with targets as varied as Bob Dylan’s ‘Ramona’ to Metallica’s ‘Nothing Else Matters’ to Hank Williams’…
EP | Lianne La Havas – Forget
You may have noticed the name Lianne La Havas on the BBC’s Sound of 2012 longlist at the turn of the year, but please don’t hold that against her. That particular barometer of cool has been malfunctioning for some time…
EP | Georgia Ruth – In Luna
If Georgia Ruth needed an angle to stand out from the crowd, she has it in her instrument of choice. Harpists are in short supply these days, with the only other one that springs to mind being Joanna Newsom, and…
EP | Joyce The Librarian – The Weight of the Line
First things first, Joyce The Librarian is one of my favourite names for a band in a while, and that was before I discovered the Stilgoe & Skillern song of a sex-starved book lender they got it from. And it…
Album | Jim White – Where It Hits You
In the circles I generally move in, the name Jim White refers to Sky Sports News’ rabid transfer-window hype-klaxon and professional Scotsman. In contrast to his namesake’s transfer deadline-day rabble-rousing, though, this Jim White is a musically understated southern American…
Albums | Pulp – It/Freaks/Separations
In the introduction to his lyrics collection Mother, Brother, Lover, published last year, unofficial national treasure Jarvis Cocker said his goal had always been to “create the kind of pop music I wished had been there for me in my…
Album | Lambchop – Mr. M
Despite announcing its arrival with a wave of lush waves, the latest album from Americana veterans Lambchop delivers understatement as a theme. From the descriptions of the banal realities of relationships (cleaning the coffee maker and avoiding ‘talking about seagulls’…