Sometimes it just clicks: one song, one listen, and you know a band will grace your favorites list. That’s the experience I had with To Kill a King, the latest Communion artist to tickle my fancy. The Virgin-released My Crooked…
Live | Eliza Carthy @ Colston Hall, Bristol, 13/10/11
If the traditional folk scene is having a good year in 2011, I think it’s fair to say that Eliza Carthy is having a bloody great one. She’s riding on the success of her best album to date, Neptune, and…
Album | Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside – Dirty Radio
“What have these people done to music? I just don’t care anymore.” Sallie Ford is not happy. She makes this abundantly clear in, ‘I Swear’, the opening track to her debut album Dirty Radio. Left cold by modern music, Ford…
News | Trash Aesthetics to release My Sad Captains/H.Hawkline split single + launch show
Awesome label and lovely chaps Trash Aesthetics have announced a split single release between Cardiff’s H.Hawkline and Londonites My Sad Captains. The 7″ features ‘You Say You Love Me’ by H. Hawkline and ‘Little Joanne’ by My Sad Captains. Each copy…
Album | Loch Lomond – Little Me Will Start A Storm
The first thing that should be mentioned about Loch Lomond is that they are not the second coming of The Decemberists, no matter what some music bloggers are saying. There are three reasons why they’re saying that though. Both bands…
Live | Iron & Wine @ Shepherds Bush Empire, 10/10/11
“‘Time isn’t kind or unkind,’ you like to say, but I wonder to whom, and what it is, you’re saying today” sings Sam Beam in ‘Tree By The River’, another gleaming example of his storytelling prowess to add to his…