After a journey to secretdom (somewhere between Cambridge and Norwich), the garden unfurls itself all centred around a huge flying machine anchored in a giant lake. This years theme was ‘Fact or Fiction’ and no effort was spared with the…
Category: Reviews
EP: Rachael Dadd – Elephee
Rachael Dadd’s new EP Elephee sounds delicate and raw, precise and spontaneous. It’s a beautiful collection of songs that could have been recorded just a few hours ago or sometime in the early 1970s. Imagine finding a vinyl record in…
Album: Caitlin Rose – Own Side Now
Speaking as a sincere and devoted life-long Dolly Parton fan, I can’t really begin to explain how wonderful it is that Caitlin Rose even exists – she’s a young, fresh, twenty-something who knows her way around country music backwards and…
EP: Fuzzystar – Late Night Radio
Listening to Fuzzystar will have you scratching your head trying to identify the many influences you hear. There’s all sorts mixed in, from scratchy Lou Barlow all the way to the smoother sounds of Belle & Sebastian. And while we’re…
In Photos: Latitude Festival
Our photographer about town, Georgie M’Glug, reports on the folkier side of Latitude…. Demure and unassuming as ever, but with a new-found fire in her belly, Laura Marling commands the Obelisk Arena on Friday night
Live: Peggy Sue & First Aid Kit @ The Garage, London
Having seen Peggy Sue more recently in a festival field and First Aid Kit in the heavenly Union Chapel, on first impressions The Garage seemed something of a mis-match. A dark, low-ceilinged, intimate venue with a reputation as a rite…
Live: Florence and the Machine @ Somerset House, London
It may be worth starting a consideration of this performance of Florence Welch and her Machine with reference to the end rather than the beginning: “This may be the last time you see us for a while, this is one…
Album: Avi Buffalo – Avi Buffalo
Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg, or Avi Buffalo to his friends, has brought together his group of young musicians from Long Beach, California, at the tender age of just 18 and they really have created a summer album with a twist. The cheery…
Review: Eardrums’ Between Two Waves Compilation
Reviewing a three-disc compilation is difficult enough without the bands not being real bands. This Eardrums Pop compilation, Between Two Waves, brings together the bands Scandinavian label/blog Eardrums Pop like, with them creating one-off projects. There are some differing results…
Album: Huw M – Os Mewn Swn
I don’t speak Welsh and have not one inkling of what Huw M’s gentle, warm voice is murmuring throughout Os Mewn Swn. But still, it’s entrancing listening to a stream of what sounds, to the uneducated, like beautiful gibberish, delivered…