23-year-old Winston Yellen, better known as Night Beds, possesses a voice of tremulous, outstanding beauty. It’s something he is highly aware of, that much is evident. For on debut album ‘Country Sleep‘, when Yellen unleashes his vocal gymnastics of heartbreaking vulnerability over lashings of rumbling …
These days, Yo La Tengo seem happy with who they are.
After near enough three decades in existence, who can blame them? And the fact that two thirds of the band are husband and wife (Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley) means this milestone deserves even more commendation. It certainly must …
There’s plenty of new talent out there to get excited about this year. The likes of Palma Violets, Haim, Tom Odell and Savages have already caused a gaggle of eager music publications to pin their colours firmly to the mast, and should at least spark the usual ‘Next Big Thing’/’Hyped …
Now you’ve been through our extensive Essential Listening 2012 series, which includes all our top choices from a past twelve months of albums, gigs and tracks, here some of our frankly super talented band of writers pick out their own favourite album of 2012, each making a convincing argument for …
There’s a raucous commotion drawing in down South West England way. A battering ram to the senses attacking these green isles with glee. It’s Waves of Fury, a five-piece band from Somerset.
Their debut album ‘Thirst’ arrives like a thunderbolt, its ten songs hitting hard like a half hour hurricane …
North East natives Little Comets are managed by former footballer Ugo Ehiogu, soundtrack Radox adverts, and once enlisted a drummer from a failed boyband.
Despite that sentence appearing to be the nonsensical ramblings of the intellectually challenged, all three are indeed facts.
With such an oddball backstory, one could easily …
The British music landscape has changed considerably in recent years.
In the not-too-distant past there seemed to be some kind of mythical conveyor belt churning out an endless array of brash and anthemic guitar bands into the upper echelons of the top 40 and into the forefront of public consciousness.…
For the past couple of years, there’s been a lot of pressure resting on Kevin Parker’s shoulders.
The Antipodean sonic adventurer, better known by the faux-band moniker Tame Impala, did rather well with 2010’s sprawling, neo-psychedelic modern classic ‘Innerspeaker’.
From recording and producing the full album alone in his …
Years from now, some may call it ‘The 1975 Paradox’.
It will apply to those artists that embrace anonymity and cover themselves beneath a blanket of secrecy, only for the fervour, hype and clamour around them to grow. Give ‘em nothing, everyone comes-a-knockin’.
This carefully constructed aura of mystique may …
And so the return of 2010’s Mercury Prize-winning wunderkinds The xx. Back with a… not a bang exactly, more so another collection of brooding pop-noir. Well, what else were you expecting?
After the universal success and widespread critical acclaim bestowed upon the band’s self-titled debut, the expectation levels for …
For such a small and isolated island, Iceland keeps producing musicians and Of Monsters and Men are the latest act to set sail from their Nordic homeland in search of success.
Released a year ago in Iceland, debut album ‘My Head Is An Animal‘ finally introduces …
On a dark side-street in Liverpool city centre, between the crumbling Victorian warehouse buildings, there is a garden. It’s quite an unexpected find, but then again this is quite an unusual garden.
A tentative step through the garden gate reveals an array of bunting, flowers and fairy lights that festoon …
How could it ever come to pass? All four of the Roses, onstage together again… in our lifetime? This wasn’t in the script.
So many of us missed out on The Stone Roses at their pinnacle the first time around; those glory years when they were what the world was …