Blossoms have no small dreams. They want success on the grand scale of like Oasis, the Beatles, and (dare I say it) Abba. On their first disc, they have the kind of radio friendly sound that’s mature beyond their years.…
Album | Blossoms – Blossoms
Album | Wild Beasts – Boy King
Wild Beasts are back in the groove, more so than ever before. After a short hiatus between 2011’s Smother and 2014’s Present Tense, the band now looks as relevant and pumped up as ever. There’s a significant change in sound,…
Live | Flo Morrissey, Billie Marten, Rachel Sermanni @ Wonder Women, London
Four hundred years ago, on the banks of the river Thames, entertainers used to tread the boards of a theatre called The Globe. This week, at a site a few hundred yards away from the original, entertainers are still treading…
Session | A Grave With No Name
In the past few years, London-based singer/songwriter Alexander Shields, aka A Grave With No Name, has released music spanning genres including lo-fi rock, broad ambient soundscapes and rich, full band arrangements. His forthcoming album, Wooden Mask, marks another change in…
Album | Lou Rhodes – theyesandeye
For Lou Rhodes the distance between trip-hop and folk music is shorter than you think. As one half of Lamb she’s recorded six trip-hop albums, yet it’s not hard to see how with different instrumentation those songs would still work…
Live | Cambridge Folk Festival 2016 Preview
Now in its 52nd year, the festival has completely sold out for the 23rd year in a row. While probably not the most famous festival in the UK’s summer line-up, it does have a long, rich history of stellar line-ups…