Southampton’s electro-darlings Arp Attack return with their third release of the year.
Delilah may be behind her contemporaries in terms of time, but from the evidence of debut LP, From The Roots Up, is miles ahead with quality and talent; producing a trip-hop laced sensual album full of pop gems.
Animal Collective’s new single Animal Collective deserts any sign of Merriweather and plows full steam ahead in the weird and wonderful of psychedelic pop; it’s like musical tripping
The Queen of rock pop has returned to regain her crown. She’s rude, she’s sexual and she f***ing loves it. Having been away for four years while she performed a sell out world tour, sorted out her marriage to Motocross racer Carey Hart, and joined Beyonce and Lily Allen in the baby department, she’s also…
Brash, pacey and talented; The Cast of Cheers’ Family is a excellent, hectic return.
Dirty Projectors are an outfit that have a reputation for experimentation and polarization but will whatever direction they’ve chosen this year be worth your while? Dirty Projectors never were my cup of tea/coffee (to all you fellow tea abhorrers, alas in England we might be a small group), not because I despise experimentation but because…
Every single article that refers to Brighton’s Conor Maynard speaks of his frustration with the comparison to the Canadian ‘heart-throb’ Justin Bieber. I for one feel his frustration. Yes, there are some similarities, especially with their targeted demographic being almost identical, but I can safely say that I very much like Conor Maynard and I very much dislike Justin…
For those of you that haven’t listen to the entirety of Labrinth’s debut album Electronic Earth what have you been listening to this year?! Before you read any further go and listen to it. You will not regret it. The fourth single from the album is ‘Treatment’. To be perfectly honest this song needs no fancy…
Mumford & Sons have released a track from their forthcoming sophmore album Babel. ‘I Will Wait’ was premiered by DJ Huw Stephens yesterday evening on BBC Radio 1 and has caused controversy amongst many of the bands’ fans for not being “new music”. The track is in fact a reworking of a song on their…
After a two year wait, The Gaslight Anthem return with Handwritten. The record has been in the works for a year, with ‘Biloxi Parish’ having been written this time last year. With single, and opening track, ‘45’ launched by none other than Zane Lowe, there was the feeling of a special album on the way.…
George Lewis Jr. (AKA Twin Shadow) is most certainly very confident. That being said does this trait allow for the enigmatic front man/multi-instrumentalist/producer/badass to dazzle and entertain us for a full 40 minutes once again? If there’s one thing 2010’s Forget did is entertain. I always felt as if a sumptuous hook was waiting for…
The instantly catchy single ‘Brokenhearted’ from long-time youtubers Karmin debuted at number 6 in the official UK Charts last week. There is nothing subtle about its influences. Vocally from the likes of Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj, and the beat sounds like Calvin Harris on a lazy day – annoyingly repetitive and little variation throughout the…
‘Heatwave’ has all the components to suggest it will be great. Released following a week of the hottest temperatures of the year, girls in bikinis dancing around a pool in the video, the godfather of grime is rapping about a heatwave, what can go wrong? It is a guaranteed number 1 without even hearing it,…
‘Everybody’s on the Run’ follows on from ‘Dream On‘ the weakest single so far from the group’s self-titled début album. So you might expect that ‘Everybody’s on the Run’ would follow this decline. It doesn’t. As Noel describes himself, the drums combined with a choir gives an “epic” feel to the song from the start. The next really…