‘Your Hand In Mine’ is a hard-hitting track that is interjected with a fantastically infectious barbershop backing vocal from Martha Wainwright. The song’s pelting rhythm pushes it forward, whilst Frost and Wainwright’s combined vocals provide an intoxicating harmony for the…
Category: Reviews
Album: Broadcast 2000
Gemma Hampson says: “Broadcast 2000 is a fitting name for this London-based indie-folk what not. Although it’s the first full-length album from the group, it will most definitely not be the first time you have heard them. Even without the discovery of their 2008-released EP ‘Building Blocks’, their sound is getting around. A film here (Yes Man), a soap there (Hollyoaks), even an ad blasted into every front room in the land.”
Album: Andrew Vincent – Rotten Pear
Jonathan Wilson writes… “As a reviewer it’s all too easy to dismiss solo acoustic artists as ‘just another one of those singer/songwriter fellows’ and upon first listening to Rotten Pear I fell straight into that trap. Who is Andrew Vincent, what’s he on about and if I’m honest why should I even care, why would anybody care? After all, he’s just another man singing about the same old stuff – “I don’t want nobody else/No, I want you” for example. Not yet ready to tackle the banality of another singer/songwriter I switched off the record player and switched on the ever-so-slightly less mind-numbingly inane Hollyoaks omnibus.”
Album: Nancy Elizabeth – Wrought Iron
There’s about a billion different ways to approach the classification of music, ranging from the very obvious to the really quite useless. On the former’s front, one might choose to classify their music by genres – rock, pop, classical and folk,…
EP: Tristram – Someone Told Me a Poem
Tristram’s new EP, Someone Told Me a Poem, is an unfeasibly beautiful toolkit for dealing with the commonplace mundanities of modern life, replete with lulling laments about stolen property, ice tea and zombies. The title track is an enigma of…
EP: Lightspeed Champion – Marlene
Lightspeed Champion, AKA Dev Hynes, is always giving. Not only has he given his fans an amazing debut album, but he’s also supplied various EPs, cover sessions and free demos through the years. In preparation for his second album, Life…
Album: Field Music’s (Measure)
Field Music’s (Measure) is one of those releases at the start of a musical new year that come out quietly though deserve to erupt like foam does on a bathtub. Being such a kaleidoscope of textures and such a versatile…
Album: The Watson Twins – Talking To You, Talking To Me
After making their name in folk circles by providing the soulful harmonies behind Jenny Lewis’s country tales on Rabbit Fur Coat, The Watson Twins have inexplicably ventured down that treacherous path called ‘easy listening’ on this, their second full-length album. Their…
Album: Eels – End Times
The 8th studio album from Eels, End Times, is a deeply, darkly personal outpouring of emotions following the ultimate ending of divorce. Mark Everett paints a picture of a man so consumed with heartbreak, cats insult him just by being in…
Single: The Dø – On My Shoulders
French/Finnish duo The Dø release their second single from their kaleidescopic album ‘A Mouthful’. ‘On My Shoulders’ has already reached the top of the charts in France and it’s easy to understand why. Other-worldly sounds combined with the sublime lyrical hooks of lead…