Glastonbury talent competition winners Treetop Flyers will release their new single ‘It’s About Time’ through Communion Records on 18th September. It’s a hit of 70s-inspired pop rock that wouldn’t feel out of place on a Laurel Canyon compilation. See what…
Album | I Break Horses – Hearts
If I didn’t know any better, I’d say I Break Horses have been created by a fiendish group of artists simply to confound music critics and disprove our own, limited art. As an explanation, here are the facts about the…
Exclusive | Stream Tuesday from Paper Aeroplanes’ new EP
Paper Aeroplanes have announced the release of a new EP ‘A Comfortable Sleep’ on September 16th. Paper Aeroplanes is the project of Sarah Howells (posessor of one of the loveliest pop voices around – who also sings with Al Lewis)…
Live | Ben Howard @ Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh
During festival season in Edinburgh, anything goes. Oxford students ride stationary exercise bikes, leafleters dressed as Victorian gentlemen heckle passers-by and opera singers cover pop classics for loose change on street corners. Yet only meters beneath the chaos, in a…
Album | Fruit Bats – Tripper
Like a lot of the folk revival album of the last decade, Tripper sounds very 1970s. It’s gentle, toe-tapping pace, its use of twinkling and sweeping major chords and warm pianos, is reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac or Crosby, Stills, Nash…
Album | The Fruit Tree Foundation – First Edition
It’s hard to make a good indie rock album. Harder still if you’re a band of mostly folk musicians plonked in a house together for only five days. And yet, here on this splendid fourteen track album, First Edition, Scottish…