Feeder’s eight studio album offers up nothing new, even if still being a decent listen from a well travelled band.
Santigold’s new album Master Of My Make-Believe released on April 23rd is the highly anticipated new record by singer-songwriter Santi White, four years after her debut album, Santogold. After a swift name change – to avoid being sued by the director of Santo Gold’s Blood Circus, a wrestling-themed science fiction film from the 80s – she’s back! The current single ‘Disparate…
Missing the good old nineties and noughties punk rock bands like Sum 41 and Blink 182? The days when cargo shorts, Converse and skateboarding were a way of life, before it became Busted and McFly‘d all over? Well, you’re still going to miss it, but The All American Rejects new album Kids In The Street might take…
Alabama Shakes sound exactly like their name would suggest, which is to say they make a kind of rootsy, lo-fi southern rock that may not be clever or complex, but is so brimming with passion and soul that you can almost feel the hot, Alabaman sun beating down on you. The obvious comparison to make…
Keaton Henson’s début album Dear is a stellar piece of work, brimming with songs of lost love, but retains an aspect of beauty that binds the record together. This solitary soul is interesting in today’s music industry as crippling stage fright has meant he has done very few live appearances. More interesting is that Keaton Henson is not…
Like music? Good. Like listening to music that makes you feel like a badass? You’ve come to the right album review. You might be able to tell I’m sort of excited about this album; two rigorously raw pre-release tracks in the form of ‘Stay Useless’ and ‘No Future/No Past’, and the knowledge that the whole album…
Well, they’re back; or, more specifically, he’s back. It’s been five years since The Shins came out with anything new, and a staggering nine years since the release of the magnificent Chutes Too Narrow. So, has the frontman of this outstanding pop-rock outfit come up with anything fresh this time around? In case you don’t know, James Mercer –…
The super producer, multi-instrumentalist and singer reshapes the British music scene with his debut album.
Dazzling synths, confusing hooks, Canada, 20-foot houseboats called the “Velvet Glove Cast in Iron” floating down the Mississippi in lieu of just reading the book? Count me in! Claire Boucher is most definitely one quirky character; one just has to listen to a few of her cuts from her latest LP Visions to quickly come…
Chiddy Bang, made up of rapper/MC Chidera ‘Chiddy’ Anamage and studio partner Noah ‘Xaphoon Jones’ Beresin, are a duo from Philadelphia whose sound is a mixture of rap, hip hop and alternative. They’ve had some chart success accompanying You Me At Six on their single ‘Rescue Me’ and their debut album ‘Breakfast’ has been a long time…
1960s crooner Engelbert Humperdinck has spirited back into the music world with the announcement that he will be representing the UK in May’s Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision have today released the video for ‘Love Will Set You Free’, a slow and contemplative ballad penned for Humperdinck by Martin Terefe and Sacha Skarbek, who were behind…
The Shins return with their trademark sound, lyrics and overall sunniness
The first thing you see when you extricate the booklet from Sleigh Bells’ new album Reign of Terror is a forest fire raging, with some tender saplings waiting in the foreground for their fate. Now imagine this fire as the band themselves and you will have some idea of why the New York noise-rock duo…