Students of lyrics will find plenty to keep them happy on Everybody Friends Now by Singing Adams, the current guise of former Broken Family Band frontman Steven Adams. Musicians, however, may struggle a little more. There are enjoyable little nuggets…
Category: Reviews
Second thoughts on Timber Timbre’s Creep on Creepin’ On
A little over a week ago, Joe Skrebels reviewed Timber Timbre’s Creep on Creepin’ On right here, but he’s already had a change of heart. As he explained on his blog Music From A Green Window, it’s just plain better…
EP: Marcus Foster – Tumble Down
There was a part of us that almost wondered if this day would ever come. To say the wait for Marcus Foster’s debut EP has been long barely begins to describe it. He’s been on the circuit for years now,…
Album: The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow
Some voices were meant to go together. And it will only take a few moments of Barton Hollow opener 20 Years for the uninitiated to realise that John Paul White and Joy Williams were born to sing together. Like the…
Album: Four Quartets – Paragon of Animals
Rob Sharples, the man behind Four Quartets, is a man who delights in his musical material and indulges technical proficiency; his debut, Paragon of Animals, is a fourteen-track rumble through ever-entwining major and minor chords and impressively warm vocal harmonies…
Singles review: Benjamin Francis Leftwich; The Epstein; Just Handshakes (We’re British); Melodica, Melody + Me
Benjamin Francis Leftwich – Pictures EP (Dirty Hit) Pictures is Benjamin Francis Leftwich’s second EP and it is more of everything that was good about last year’s A Million Miles Out EP. Again it is Leftwich’s voice, ethereal and airy…
Album: King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
King Creosote says he might never put another record out in a physical form. His last few albums have been released in many an unconventional format, from those available to buy at gigs only, to one only available to record…
Album: The Wailin’ Jennys – Bright Morning Star
The Wailin Jennys’ Bright Morning Star is of the utmost quality, but requires a little time to take root in one’s mind. The harmonies are perfect, the dynamics are truly moving, and every track thoughtfully arranged. This being said, it…
Album: Nicole Atkins – Mondo Amore
Nicole Atkins has one of the most incredible voices of any artist recording right now. She channels the spirit of Judy Garland, Roy Orbison and Edith Piaf. Her haunting tones were central to the sweeping, cinematic tracks of 2007 debut…
Live: Jesca Hoop @ Leeds Cockpit – 21/03/2011
In a cramped, sweaty bunker of a venue, Jesca Hoop is serenity itself, charming an attentive Leeds crowd with a hypnotic set of her eclectic but distinctive melodies. The little arched attic at the top of the Cockpit ought to…