Three years ago, the progression of Willy Vlautin’s songwriting reached its logical conclusion with the ambitious ‘musical novel’ The High Country, a concept album in which Vlautin sought to combine his increasingly successful literary career with his first love, music.…
Out of Brooklyn come duo The Point, whose track ‘Lost Your Chance’ is a lovely, laid-back slice of electro pop. Simple but subtly different, Michael O’Neill and Sammy Tunis have created a song which feels almost slight at the start but by…
Wow, talk about slow build. This glorious track from Peter Matthew Bauer starts from nothing and grows very much at its own pace into a perfect slice of unapologetic and grimy folk pop. Bauer used to be in The Walkmen,…
EP three by The Drink The Drink are one of our favourite discoveries of 2014. We loved their their second EP Two, and particularly the track ‘At The Weekend‘. Now there’s a third EP. Can you guess what it’s called?…
American Nomad isn’t so much a band name for the project of Hassan El-Tayyab and Shiloh Parkerson as a description of the music they make. Country Mile, the title track from their latest album, takes you on a journey through…
Is grunge-folk a thing? If it isn’t, it totally should be. This cover of the Nirvana classic ‘Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle’ by the Honey Ants is really kind of awesome. The track will be the B…