‘In the Open’ is the first single taken from the singer songwriter’s EP of the same title, scheduled for release on the 19th November along with three other tracks (You can preorder it on iTunes!). In typical Benjamin Francis Leftwich fashion, it’s a lullaby serenade, in which the vocals come off as smooth and effortless,…
Kevin Walker’s Tame Impala are a psychedelic rock band from Perth in Australia, which is widely considered to be one of the most isolated cities on earth and the music certainly reflects that. The sound of the album is direct from the sixties, frontman Kevin Walker even sounds eerily similar to John Lennon on some…
When I asked Last Dinosaurs to describe their album, they told me In A Million Years is a “carefully considered guitar shredding pop” album. Normally, a lot of artists make over-exaggerated claims about their music; but in this case I reckon they were being a little modest. The first track of the album, ‘Zoom’, pretty…
All Time Low are one of those bands that stir emotion in anyone. Whether it’s intense fandom or uncontrollable hatred everyone has an opinion. As a fan since the Put Up Or Shut Up days I’ve seen their progression and journey from the tiny venues and unpopular EP’s to the arenas and chart topping anthemic…
Formed way back in 1995, Coheed and Cambria have been steadily releasing their blend of experimental progressive rock, pop punk and post-hardcore to the masses, through the guise of a high concept sci-fi story called The Amory Wars. An ongoing narrative which runs through every single one of their albums to date and their sixth…
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (TEED) seems to have carved a path for him by making easily accessible dance music without having to contain himself to set genre, and ‘Your Love’ is a a further example that he understand the realms of popular dance music. Starting with a multitude of sounds in the intro, the song…
What would you get if you channelled the spirit of Black Sabbath through the sound system in an old haunted house fairground ride? Well besides a bizarre idea for a crossover theme park you’d also have possibly the closest approximation of the sound of Bristol four-piece Turbowolf. This is the first release since last year’s…
I for one was pleasantly surprised by Animal Collective’s 2008 extended play Water Curses, featuring four texturally-rich tracks including ‘Cobwebs’ and ‘Seal Eyeing’, both of which seeming to represent somewhat of a change of direction for the experimental four-piece American band – although previous efforts such as Feels (2005) and Strawberry Jam (2007) were equally…
A rather mixed affair from the inteprid Californian producer on his fourth album.
Principles Of A Protagonist, a free EP recently released by Chicago born Willis Earl Beal, is beautiful and gloriously imperfect.
“We are the innocents, we are chosen” is the grand opening claim of Helen Boudling’s single ‘The Innocents’. With lyrics like that this single makes the promise early on to be an anthem, encouraging us all to join the universal cry of “We are the innocents”. Yet the music and overall production fails to deliver…
The entirety of Dan Deacon’s oeuvre is centred around juxtaposition. The Baltimore composer always sets his disparate influences against each other, rather than simply blending them together. For instance, on his last album, 2009’s excellent Bromst, he takes as much influence from Brian Wilson as he does Steve Reich, but it sounds little like either.…
Everybody’s favourite pop-punk rock superstars are back! And what’s that? They have three albums coming out in sucession? Complete with those Spanish expressions of exclamation! Yes Green Day have returned, but the real question is, what are they bloody angry about this time? Billie-Joe isn’t ‘fucking Bieber’ but he is addicted to an anonymous ‘substance’,…
The latest single from the UK’s favourite new male solo artist, Conor Maynard, is one of those tracks that will fill dancefloors in clubs everywhere. Unless even the drunk are too snobby to succumb to his boyish charm (and looks) as they’re too busy comparing him to Justin Bieber. I for one would happily dance…