An adit is a hillside entrance into a mine (usually a horizontal or vertical passage into the pit, if you care) and a mining reference seems fitting for the sophomore LP of Aberystwyth natives the Lowland Hundred. Their second album…
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Album | King’s Daughters & Sons – If Then Not When
King’s Daughters & Sons brings together members of The Shipping News, Rachel’s, The For Carnations and Shannon Wright, and this is not some throwaway side project. They have been working on If Then Not When for three years, and have…
Album | AA Bondy – Believers
AA Bondy’s third album Believers opens with the pounding beat of ‘The Heart Is Willing’ and straight away it seems to immediately lay down a marker that this is going to be a more powerful, more direct record than those…
Album | Extra Classic – Your Light Like White Lightning, Your Light Like A Laser Beam
Extra Classic hail from home-of-counterculture San Francisco. Some of the six band members have previously played with The Papercuts and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, and as recently as 2007 were supporting Modest Mouse and Conor Oberst. So far, so…
Singles Round-up | We Are Augustines, Mozart Parties, Vadoinmessico, The Twilight Sad, Sam Brookes and First Aid Kit
We Are Augustines – Book of James This reminds me of the emotional fervour of Mumford & Sons with less righteousness, more of an incantation than a battlecry. Inspired by family and loss, it’s a eulogy to lead singer Billy…
EP | The Lost Cavalry – Snow City Radio
What sort of songs would you like on your car radio in Snow City? Assuming everything in Snow City is covered in snow, like some Christmas film vision of New York and that I get to wear one of those…
EP | Darren Hayman – Christmas In Haworth
The Christmas album comes with all sorts of pitfalls in which to fall headfirst or to stand in proudly, arms akimbo. Even the most earnest of performers can put out some jingly-jangly tune to suit the season of merriment. But…
Album | Vanessa Peters – The Christmas We Hoped For
At a time when every Tom, Dick and Harry are releasing a Christmas album (Tom, Dick and Harry probably being Michael Bublé, The Smurfs and Cliff Richard), it’s great to see the folk community getting in on the action this…
Album | Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler – This Is Christmas
In a year with more full-length festive offerings than any in recent memory, there has still been something essentially ‘Christmassy’ missing. She & Him provided the Midnight Mass feeling – respectful, stately, something you can be sure your Gran will…
EP | Daughter – The Wild Youth
To say it’s been a busy year for Daughter would be a massive understatement. The release of The Wild Youth EP is her third release in a year (the first, a collection of demos may not be recognised as ‘official’,…