You may know him as Scott from Frightened Rabbit, but forget that – he’s Owl John now. And he’s making grungy, dirty music full of latent threat and purpose. He says: “This song is about a desire to escape the…
#505 Owl John – Hate Music
#504 Oh So Quiet – Inure
https://soundcloud.com/oh-so-quiet/inure-1 This is ‘Inure’, the B side to the new single from Oh So Quiet – a London-based six-piece formed by Argentinian siblings Lucas and Malena Zavala. We’re not 100% sure why we were sent the B side rather than…
#503 The August List – Red Light On The Tower
This track could hardly be any more different than the last August List track we featured – ‘Forty-Rod Of Lightnin’. The two have one thing very definitely in common though – they’re both awesome. A double A side with It…
#502 Hannah Peel – Invisible City
We love Hannah Peel and we’d happily listen to her play any song on her music box. That this one, ‘Invisible City’, happens to be a bit of a cracker, really helps. It’s an unreleased track – performed here in…
Album | Twelfth Day – The Devil Makes Three
You could be forgiven for not believing that this is only their second full studio album, as Twelfth Day not only sound much more accomplished in their brand of innovative modern, yet traditionally-infused, folk, but because they have already released…
Album | Otis Gibbs – Souvenirs of a Misspent Youth
The country blues intro of ‘Cozmina’ is a great setting out of the stall for Otis Gibbs’ seventh album. The twanging banjo and the gliding strings are deliciously palatable. When Otis’ well-torn and whiskey-soaked voice enters and the song becomes…