Whilst the originals could hardly be described as polished, there’s an energetic new vigour to Deap Vally’s reworkings.
Whether you used to play the clarinet at school or once bought a Yamaha CS-80 in attempting to sound like Boards Of Canada but gave up shortly after, everyone knows there are …
“Gone is any notion of J Mascis as a writer lacking emotional bandwidth.”
It’s always felt a little weird that, as the frontman of a band who live are so ear-bleedingly loud in Dinosaur Jr., J Mascis would write solo material which has been set largely in the acoustic realm. …
Whilst Jamie Webster might not be admitting it, this third time street politicking comes with questions of him too.
You started out playing gigs in pubs. You wanted to go where few others would, talking about the long-forgotten working class and their rights and wrongs through their own lens, doing …
Prelude To Ecstasy has our attention, an obvious chance for The Last Dinner Party to tell stories and leave future debate to the chattering classes.
You shouldn’t pay them any attention, but recently there was a survey highlighting the supposed gap in attitudes between men and women; the latter, it …
U2 by Rich Fury
U2 do not shy away from big.
The four-piece are the one of the biggest stadium acts of all time, second only to The Rolling Stones, but – unlike Mick and co – have pushed the boundaries …
In Gruff Rhys’ solo canon progress is nearly always by degree, a truth underlined again here.
The last time we encountered the much-loved Welsh singer Gruff Rhys he was somewhere up a 4,000-year-old Korean volcano on his previous album Seeking New Gods; a study in melancholic pop of the highest …
A change in producer hasn’t resulted in the abandonment of The Smile’s rage and funk.
For Radiohead fans, the announcements of side-projects/solo albums are a mixed blessing.
On the one hand, new music from whichever member of the band is exciting, but tempered by the knowledge that the next Radiohead …
Chemtrails’ triumph lies in not being just the final product of somebody else’s jigsaw.
Not everyone is as open as Chemtrails are about sharing their inspirations, no matter what the source.
Talking about Detritus Andronicus, the single which preceded this, their third album The Joy Of Sects, the band …
When faced with writer’s block there are many worse go-to reference points than, ‘What would Orange Juice do?, but Ducks Ltd. – English singer/lyricist Tom McGreevy and Australian Evan Lewis (guitar, bass, drum programming) – are now confident enough to no …
If punk rock has always been looked at by those in the straight world as a place for outsiders, what happens when one of its icons chooses to become the outsider themselves?
A musical force of nature, as the lead …
Almost buried at the end of 2015’s West Kirby County Primary, Bill Ryder-Jones offered a clue to where he was with it all on Even Good Things Break My Heart, the album’s undersold peak. …
Whenever you see anything about Future Islands it can seem like the writer is somehow contractually obliged to mention that Letterman performance and the subsequent bridgehead it gave them into the mainstream. That was ten years ago however, and …
It’s all a bit much this time of year, isn’t it? Whether it’s the hangover from the pre-Christmas partying/stress, the lingering indulgence or loneliness of the holiday season itself or the desolate, bleak comedown which we’re now enduring (otherwise known as ‘January’).
Come then and …
Tired are we? January blues already? Feeling a bit hungover from the festive period?
Tough. Snap out of it. And if you don’t do it yourself, then Sprints will do it for you.
Slowly but surely over the last couple of years, the Dublin-four …
If you want to know how hard it is to be a musician with a conscience these days, just ask Sleaford Mods singer Jason Williamson.
When confronted during a gig in Madrid recently with a Palestinian scarf being …
The longer it goes, the harder it gets to cast your mind back to the early days of the pandemic.
As an art form, music overnight for many was revitalised, a means of both escapism and connection to an outside now …