For some incomprehensible reason, they’ve put an air siren in Tulia’s second single ‘Live it Up’, which features ‘Rack City‘ star, Tyga. After the runaway success of her first single ‘Young’, this follow up is devastatingly poor. A cheap attempt to try and start the song in a sunny ‘samba-esque’ mood fails and moves into…
Walk the Moon, the little known band from Cincinnati, Ohio, have released a free-download track from their self titled album which is available to download here. Energetic, catchy, upbeat and just plain fun – ‘Tightrope’ is a quintessential Walk the Moon song. Use of a scratchy guitar sound and a fairly repetitive drum beat is…
Yeasayer are a band who have always been there or thereabouts without ever really hitting the bullseye. Their music has a tendency to be interesting and adventurous in its own way, but not arresting or brilliant, despite their continual efforts and maximalist approach. Their last album, Odd Blood, had a couple of catchy tracks, but…
Indie-pop band Everything Everything have made a triumphant return with new single ‘Cough Cough’
Becci delves into Two Door Cinema Club’s highly anticipated sophomore album, Beacon.
Despite being shunned by the Critics Choice Award at the Brits and the BBC Sound of 2012 poll, the 27 year old Londoner has been steadily growing in popularity for the last 2 years, and this week, Jessie Ware releases her debut album Devotion.
My first thought upon hearing ‘Madness’ was “this has to be a joke”. But perhaps this is a bit too obvious of a reaction. If you put this camp, pure-pop number next to any of the Muse’s Origin of Symmetry-era work then, objectively, it pales in comparison. The band have taken a new direction, unique-apocolyptic-Muse…
Coexist, the xx’s follow-up to debut album xx, remains one of the most eagerly anticipated albums of the year. The release of single, ‘Angels‘ only whet the appetite and with less than a month to go, second single ‘Chained’ has got the heart pacing even more. In many ways, ‘Chained’ follows the pattern set-up by its…
‘Bad Blood’ is the new single from Bastille. To be honest, if you haven’t heard of Bastille already then you really should sit up and pay attention. After getting a significant amount of airplay on BBC Radio 1 and featuring on Huw Stephen’s show very recently, it seems others are really starting to take Bastille…
It seems to all be becoming a bit formulaic now doesn’t it? Like clockwork when a new year comes around the typical ‘one to watch’ columns of the assorted music press always feature some new British indie band who they hotly tip and talk about with quiet awe as they discuss how this new arrival…
Those people who have been fans of The Midnight Beast for years, like me, would have thought this album has been a long time coming. The number of parody songs they now have under their belt is definitely enough to fill an album, if not two! But to be fair, the trio’s circumstances would obviously…
The Biff are back. New single ‘Stingin’ Belle’ was premiered as a preview to their upcoming album ‘Opposites’. Despite the fact they have changed the name, their promise to release two studio albums in 2012 still looks to be on. Anyhow, to the track. With an intro that sounds like a marching band on speed…
Kimbra’s debut starts well but never quite lives up to the artists who she is compared to.
After producing one of the best albums of 2009, Grizzly Bear are back with new single ‘Yet Again’; the debut track from the forthcoming Shields