John G. Fagan says: Watchword, the latest album from Swindon band Mr Love & Justice is 1960s-esque, simplistic-yet-effective, folk pop. Stand-out track We, The Chartists, which has a Wicker Man feeling to it. Never Know Why is is another sterling effort.
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Album: The Very Most – A Year with the Very Most
The Very Most made it their duty to soundtrack your 2009, releasing an EP for each season, which are now brought together in A Year with the Very Most. The album, which clocks in at a healthy nineteen songs with over…
Classic album recommendation: Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
Despite what anyone says, despite all the distinctly average albums since, Ryan Adams is a genius. Let’s go back nearly ten years to September 2000 and Heartbreaker, his un-missable, un-skippable debut album. Fourteen — well fifteen if you include the…
Album: Midlake – The Courage of Others
Realising one’s role in the world is a seminal point in life that is too often underestimated, ignored. I doubt that Tiger Woods remembers the exact moment he picked up his first golf club, or the first time he saw…
Album: Communion Compilation
Look, the clue is in the name – this offering from the burgeoning club night established by Ben Lovett (Mumford & Sons) and Kevin Jones (Cherbourg) is a bringing together of musical souls and a testament to the talent that…
EP: Lissie – Why You Runnin’ (Fat Possum)
So I have been trying to figure out where I have seen this angelical face of Lissie, with this profound and roaring voice like a storm; and I can’t, for the love of me, remember at all. It is one…
EP: Caitlin Rose – Dead Flowers
Nashville’s Caitlin Rose sings and sounds like June Carter. She’s part of a new generation of country folk singers but her debut EP Dead Flowers could have been lifted straight from the late 1960s. It’s full of catchy little country-esque…
Album: First Aid Kit – The Big The Black and the Blue
Callum Mitchell says: “First Aid Kit have made an album way beyond their years; their sound evoking an image of a couple of worn out, world-weary housewives sat on their Kentucky porch strumming away and singing songs of lost lovers and meetings with the dead”
Album: Get Well Soon – Vexations
The recurring theme throughout Get Well Soon’s music is a constant contrast between light and dark; good and bad; heaven and hell. The first clue is in the dark connotations behind the bands name, an illness not yet treated, no…
Album: Owen Pallett – Heartland
In this day and age, labels and radios and whatnot are trying so hard to come up with the best new thing, the latest emerging sound, the never-heard-before band, that marvellous break-through act. And in assonance, there are musicians trying…