It was seemingly by chance that I happened along the Festival Republic Stage when The Family Rain were playing at Reading Festival last year. A group of us wandered over there only to witness one of the most interesting new live acts to emerge two years ago. Hailing from Bath, the trio of brothers have…
Seemingly keen to avoid ‘end of year’ lists, William Bevan aka Burial released the Truant/Rough Sleeper EP mid-December in 2012. Almost exactly 12 months later he promptly released Rival Dealer, a three-track 12” spanning almost half an hour. The title track opens in familiar Burial territory, with signature vinyl crackle/rain atmospherics and an androgynous RnB…
Almost three years after the release of their widely successful third album, Bombay Bicycle Club make their hotly anticipated return to indie music royalty with their new album So Long, See You Tomorrow. During the three year hiatus, the band have taken a new direction with their sound, following Steadman’s treks around India, Turkey and…
Since 2004, Hard-Fi have achieved some incredible feats. Frontman, Richard Archer, describes how as a band, ‘We met and played with our musical heroes, played some incredible shows, saw the world.’ With three top ten albums, two of which seizing the number one spot, becoming the most played band on Radio One in 2006, and…
Whether you know him from Derrick Comedy or Community, you won’t recognize the Donald Glover you knew. Don’t worry though, this isn’t a bad thing at all. Because the Internet is the second studio album from Childish Gambino, over two years after his last album Camp and over one year from his last mixtape, R O Y…
Warpaint’s second album is a triumph.
True originality is getting hard to come by in modern metal. One bandwagon comes along after another, only to break under the weight of its passengers. It seems that the djent movement is set to be the next casualty, but Hacktivist are not like the rest. Headed by the twin MC team of J Hurley…
Californian rock band, Linkin Park follow the release of their 2012 album, Living Things, with a remix album, Recharged, that sees a variety of collaborators rework the band’s most recent material. This is not unusual for the band, having given their debut album, Hybrid Theory, the same treatment, to great success, with their first remix album, in 2002, Reanimation. 11…
Hannah Mylrea takes a look at Beyoncé’s shock release, and it’s much more than fans could have hoped for.
With the recent passing of St. Andrew’s day, along with Scotland’s formal calling for independence, (and of course not forgetting Biffy Clyro’s glorious headline sets at Reading and Leeds Festival this past August) it seems our gutsy northern neighbours have been singing a lot recently. Winter is coming, and poor weather is something that those…
Cat Olley reviews Blood Orange’s second album.
The 1000th number one album will be announced on the Official Chart Show on Sunday; Kirsty Bradley looks at the history of the album.
Death Grips have become an entity synonymous with organised chaos, both in the studio and in everyday bureaucratic life. Having released The Money Store to critical acclaim on the Epic label, the art-punk/hip-hop/noise act decidedly went a little off the rails. What occurred was possibly one of the most mundane sequence of events ever witnessed…
Jake Bugg’s second record is a good effort, says Jenny Simpson.