Category: Reviews

Album | Warpaint – Warpaint

For your first listen to the long-awaited second album from this Californian group, I seriously suggest you make time, plug in some seriously good speakers and allow yourself to just listen. In other words, do not ‘make do’ with some…

Album | Sumie – Sumie

Sumie’s eponymous new album shows off an array of haunting melodies, her voice floating on top of intricate trance-inducing broken guitar chords. An exercise in the stripped down, most of the tracks feature only her vocals and guitar, with occasional…

EP | Roo Panes – Land Of The Living

There’s something honest about Roo Panes’ music – he manages romanticism without melodrama, sincerity without sentimentality. Indeed Land of the Living’s opener, ‘Glory Days’, where a ukulele is strummed alongside bowed strings, serves as perfect image of what Panes has…

EP | Marika Hackman – Sugar Blind

Marika Hackman first burst on to the scene back in early 2012 with her sweet song ‘Here I Lie’, recorded for a Burberry campaign. The comparisons to Laura Marling, Joanna Newsom and Nico quickly rolled in, and it was clear…

EP | David Harbottle & The Friendly Cats – Dawn Breaks

With a name as playful as David Harbottle & The Friendly Cats, one of the strongest elements I initially expected from their record was quite simply, fun. Happily, the seven-piece outfit’s third EP, Dawn Breaks, doesn’t disappoint in that sense…