Earlier this year a couple of Tashaki Miyaki songs appeared on the internet. Rumours spread as to who exactly this exciting band were, and where their perfectly formed shoegaze-fuzz came from. It transpires they’re a Californian boy/girl duo (Lucy on…
Category: Records
Album | Will Hanson – Moving A Body
A Paris-born Londoner resident in Glasgow, Will Hanson has found his niche after a change of musical direction. Since splitting from his former band Proxy, relocating up north and striking out on his own, Hanson’s sound evolved to encompass a…
EP | Dear Winesburg – Light & Deft
Light & Deft is a very pastoral EP, all hillside wanderings and poetic musings. There’s a slight undertow of darkness that’s accepted rather than rebelled against. Lush accompaniment (strings, accordion, brass) and a rising pace on the second track, my…
Album | Bonnie Prince Billy – Wolfroy Goes To Town
It is hard to believe that this is the 21st album from Will Oldham and 12th under the Bonnie Prince Billy guise. This in its self is worth celebrating, never mind that it is an absolutely beautiful piece of work.…
Album | Twenty-One Crows – Sons of Liberty
The oral tradition of storytelling has been with us for thousands of years. It helped strengthen communities, served as the only means of communicating important news of the day and, in its crucial role as the foundation stone of mildly…
Album | Maria Byrne & The Broken String – Little Basement
Apparently, Maria Byrne used to work as a welder, tackling hairline cracks in Rolls Royce jet engines. Having never taken a naked flame anywhere near a jet engine, I can only imagine it to be an intensive, noisy way to…
EP | Esben & The Witch – Hexagons
2011 has been a good year for those of us who thrive on female-driven, experimental, neo-goth, with the likes of Austra, Warpaint and Zola Jesus bringing their sexed-up, spiky versions of gothic gloom to the airwaves. With their latest EP…
Album | Strange Boys – Live Music
If you thought that Ryan Sambol‘s voice was a little too much like a cat being skinned by a chainsaw, Live Music, the third offering from Texan foursome Strange Boys, will come as a pleasant surprise. Sambol has refined his…
Album | Real Estate – Days
The word ‘sunny’ rarely gets a look in around this time of the year, when daylight itself becomes a precious commodity. But Real Estate are a band that can’t avoid the word. Categorised as ‘surf-pop’, which essentially means they sound…
Album | Erica Buettner – True Love And Water
It is always pleasing to see a New Bands Panel graduate – especially one you enjoyed at the time – return with a full album, and so it proves as well-travelled American Erica Buettner’s True Love And Water reaches us.…