EP Review: Father Sculptor ‘Faith & Violence’

Of course, there’s no such thing as a mass-sweeping revival anymore; they happen at the same time, all of the time. So if this year’s Britpop and baggy-indebted B-Towners (Peace, Continue reading →

Album Review: Laura Mvula ‘Sing To The Moon’

“Our love is like the morning clouds,” bursts the opener, with one mammoth swell of Laura Mvula‘s heavily multi-tracked, honey-doused, vocals. It’s a grandiose, bold and classy introduction. An introduction Continue reading →

EP Review: Bobby Tank ‘The Way’

Imagine, come July, a golden shore peppered with vacuous teen posers; the ‘Suspicious Parents’-generation, if you will, who’ve come puff-chested and equipped with bronzed, Lynx-doused bodies, a penchant for indecent Continue reading →

Exposure: Winterhours | The 405

Exposure is our scrapbook of our favourite new bands. Today’s exposure features London grandiose-folk foursome Winterhours. Name: Winterhours Location: London, UK Genre: Jangly alt-folk For Fans of: Radical Face, Dry Continue reading →

Exposure: Flick White | The 405

Exposure is our scrapbook of our favourite new artists. Today’s exposure features swooning, London-based folkstress Flick White. Name: Flick White Location: SW London-via-Bournemouth Genre: Harmony-laden Folk For Fans of: The Continue reading →

Exposure: Alex Light | The 405

Exposure is our scrapbook of our favourite new artists. Today’s exposure features enthrallingly eclectic, South East London producer Alex Light. Name: Alex Light Location: SE London, England Genre: Electro-tinged Dance Continue reading →

Album Review: Melody’s Echo Chamber ‘Melody’s Echo Chamber’

Classically trained, French soloist Melody Prochet makes the kind of floating psych as Melody’s Echo Chamber that evokes a dream within a dream. A lucid one, perhaps, in which a Continue reading →

Alex Light // Electric Ballroom, London // 28.11.12

There’s an icy, piercing wind that sweeps across Camden High Street on this midweek evening, which may go some way to explaining the mad juvenile dash spurred by the recently Continue reading →

Album Review: Various Artists ‘Spirit Of Talk Talk’

Release Date: 03/09/2012 Label: Fierce Panda Tribute compilations can be notoriously, messy affairs: the weird jumble of conflicting artists often seal such collections’ fate as uneven full listens, plus there’s Continue reading →

EP Review: Cate Le Bon ‘CYRK II’

Release Date: 20/08/2012 Label: Ovni A glut of gushing critics greeted the giddy, oddball-psych of Cate Le Bon’s CYRK at the start of the year – so news of twisted Continue reading →

Album Review: The Magic ‘Ragged Gold’

Release Date: 25/06/2012 Label: Half Machine It was sad to see legendary ‘Release Me’-crooner Englebert Humperdinck’s recent fruitless attempt at Eurovision. His flurry of deflating ‘nul points’, of course, instigated Continue reading →

EP Review: Disclosure ‘The Face’

Release Date: 04/06/2012 Label: Greco-Roman Hype can be a cruel mistress. The inaugural beats of a lone demo can be enough to incite a plethora of bloggers to wax ecstatic Continue reading →

Album Review: The Walkmen with ‘Heaven’

Release Date: 04/06/2012 Label: Bella Union It must be equal parts thrilling and wholly infuriating being The Walkmen. While they brag an intricate and alluring back catalogue spanning over a Continue reading →

Album Review: Peasant ‘Bound For Glory’

Release Date: 16/04/2012 Label: Schnitzel The British folk revival appears to have been given another forceful resuscitation on these shores in 2012. In a state of pre-apocalyptic reflection, the UK Continue reading →