Gone is the Husker Du-esque scrabble of Idlewild’s early bombshells; by contrast their self-titled tenth album sounds like a long-lost, grown-up cousin.
Back in the slightly frenzied and uncertain period that followed the demise of Britpop (a genre that unlike the dinosaurs avoided its own mass extinction event and laboured …
Whilst Richard Ashcroft himself has described the mix of styles in his new work as eclectic, mostly ‘Lovin’ You’s vibe is still a mellow, Radio 2 friendly one.
Come to think of it, isn’t one definition of freedom doing whatever you want to do provided that it doesn’t cause harm …
Compiled by the group, The Sheer Action Of The Fini Tribe is a meticulous cataloguing of their first incarnation.
Edinburgh is one of those places that has always suffered a little for its biscuit tin image.
Even now, you’ll get lots of people who think the annual Military Tattoo is …
Moshers have to wait their turn in this fierce and primal mix, but both Fried and the breakneck hardcore of Kin are stagedive ready, an aspect of this community Upchuck haven’t forgotten.
You don’t start writing about music to talk about vomiting, but you can’t deny the times might call …
‘portals // polarities’ celebrates process as well as offering a wider emotional perspective on Night Tapes’ polyglot influences.
Many of us will at some point have done it; having either strummed a chord, blown a note or held down a key, we for the briefest of seconds counted ourselves as …
These songs make Sprints one of the must hear Irish bands from a long line of must hear Irish bands.
Sprints singer Karla Chubb has, like many of us, stared in the abyss of modern living, considered her response carefully and decided: ‘I could not give less of a fuck’.…
As with the deliberate ambiguity of the record’s title, NewDad are happy for listeners to figure some of the answers out for themselves.
It used to be so goddamn simple.
You wrote some songs. You got signed. You made a record. You had a hit.
You went on Later Jools, …
A sense of feeling at right angles, life either in the way or passing you by, thematically pervades much of Nation Of Language’s new record.
Nation Of Language singer and songwriter Ian Richard Devaney doesn’t necessarily seem ready for the big time.
Released two years ago, their third album Strange …
Whoever’s been part of the Metronomy process, the air of a Devonian mad sonic professor at work has never been too far from the surface.
You say to yourself, ‘Hmmm, you sure, mate?’, when a band like Metronomy give a compilation album the well-worn title Greatest Hits.
Perhaps to …
Sydney Minsky Sargeant’s debut solo album is a very pronounced left turn from Working Men’s Club’s ecstatic, industrial synth pop.
It just looked like the best gig they’d ever played.
When Working Men’s Club took to the stage at Glastonbury in 2023 what happened next was message-your-mates stuff.
Locked into …
It would probably have the combined members of Ride weeping into their effects pedals, but Tasmin Stephens (TTSSFU if you prefer) made her whole shoegaze and dream pop-led debut album Me, Jed And Andy using Garageband.
The Manchester-based artist also moonlights from herself …
David Byrne’s gift for making the normal seem strange – and vice versa – is a rare quality, to be cherished.
Dues, you gotta earn them.
And once you’ve earned them, you got some latitude to mess about with people’s ideas about you, your music and what the hell they …
Although there’s a lot of file sharing, on ‘International’ the identity which Saint Etienne fans have cherished is rarely if ever under threat.
Nothing should surprise us in music these days, a branch of art of which The Rolling Stones accountants seemed to feel that anybody needed the execrable Hackney …
Named after science fiction writer Ursula K Le Guin’s dystopian novel, Lathe Of Heaven are a Brooklynite quartet with side hustles in various other NYC punk, hardcore and metal …
The Gulp world has always been one that’s occupied the other side of the mirror, where fantasy has the upper hand over reality.
For many of us a sense of place is important, even if it’s only to serve as an anchor.
An identity can come from place (or equally …
One of the most encouraging features of 20’s pop as a phenomenon is the approach of its stars to the poison chalice of celebrity.
Whether the #MeToo movement was a direct break point or not, some at least of …