Pet Shop Boys combine lyrical openness with a more eclectic, playful musical backdrop.
When you’ve been around for over more than forty years you can probably consider yourself to have gone through most important career phases; from defining yourself, to finding an audience then, if you’re lucky, …
Take 5 showed that Northside could punch harder than many of their contemporaries.
Winners. Losers. Mondays? Former. Roses? Yeah, at least for a bit. James? Escaped it largely unscathed but had been around for years and just got swept up. The La’s? Never, really. The Charlatans? Obviously.…
English Teacher are here on merit, at a career junction with branches leading off into everywhere.
When you think about it, isn’t pretty much everything about place? Whether it’s the place you’re physically in, or the one your head is at?
Dislocation between these states causes many …
Jane Weaver’s circumstances have dictated a typically idiosyncratic left turn for her new album.
Sometimes it just makes sense to do things on your own.
Jane Weaver’s early experiences with the music industry whilst the century was still young would’ve tempted many to consider self-reliance, a series …
The Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard album’s alpha and omega moments are suitably at odds.
The last time Live4ever came across Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard was on a sunny Sunday afternoon in 2022, playing North Yorkshire’s Deer Shed festival.
With lead signer Tom Rees melting in the heat, all seemed …
This is Chastity Belt’s own sense of humour writ large, a sisterhood in all but name.
Live, Laugh, Love is the kind of phrase you see framed on posters, usually right next to something like ‘Nobody Leaves Here Sober’ or ‘Keep Calm and Let Karma Finish It’.…
Undoubtedly Waxahatchee’s most accomplished and confident album yet.
The world of country music must be a pretty confusing one to live in at times.
Arguably in more robust popular health than ever, 2023 found it vacillating between serving as a proxy for the kind of views found in watchers of …
Xmal Deutschland created a completely alien soundscape that felt disorientating and bleak.
We like to pretend influencers are a new thing, but they’re really not.
In musical terms, it doesn’t always make for an edifying sight to witness your favourite artists barrel-scraping for new engagement ideas on TikTok or Insta, …
On Rockmaker, The Dandy Warhols’ vista is one of absolutes.
It’s a strategy as old as time: create that one killer single and let it pull your more nuanced, complicated album blinking through into the mainstream daylight.
For The Dandy Warhols, their 2000 release Thirteen Tales From Bohemia was …
Revival Season show how wicked Southern hip-hop took their very souls.
Psst…it’s trade secrets time at L4E.
With (almost) every album we get, we’re provided with what in old money was known as a press release which is meant to give you a bit more background about the artist, the …
Colouring’s new album has a sincerity and heartfelt warmth that transcends grieving.
It’s just the way we’re wired, but sometimes you can grow more by going through the hard stuff and coming out of the other side in one piece, mentally and physically.
In this process the brain has a …
‘Liam Gallagher John Squire’ is an album set on rekindling mojo and bouncing off each other’s very different talents in the process.
You wouldn’t give a three-year-old a football and expect them to start crossing it like Kevin De Bruyne, would you?
Likewise, you wouldn’t expect a van driver to …
With greater freedom and the second guessing down to just themselves, MGMT have the scope to experiment without caring whose dollar it’s on.
It feels really weird to be talking about MGMT as some kind of non-force in music given that their previous album – 2018’s Little Dark Age – …
“On Daniel, Real Estate’s sad happy machine will be able to teleport you anywhere.”
If we could use a sad happy machine, one that turned all the doubt and fear into joy at the flick of a switch, we’d use it wouldn’t we?
Or maybe the human condition dictates that …
Shambolics are no soft touch, many of the songs seeing life through the eyes of those whose life is much more gutter than stars.
There’s not a lot to do in Kirkcaldy.
Like many other places in Scotland, post-Industrialisation has punched hard, leaving a High Street that’s full of identikit …
Tangk sonically raises IDLES’ collective bar for innovation and creativity.
It says something about the current plight of society that when Joe Talbot declared that the new Idles album is, in their own way, all about love, you had to pause to check whether you’d heard it correctly.
Love is, …