Ω Originally featured in Crack Magazine ‘Lemniscate’ is initially remarkable for the vast amount of influences it manages to cram under its veil of atmospheric, lo-fi production. Radiohead-recalling bass licks are particularly prominent in… Continue reading
Ramona Gonzalez, a.k.a. Nite Jewel, had her fantastic 2009 album ‘Good Evening’ re-released this November with a couple of bonus tracks thrown in for good measure, and to coincide with this ‘Weak For… Continue reading
Ω Originally featured in Mint Magazine When Stubborn Heart first poked their heads out of the sand 6 months ago it was with the heavily psychedelic-tinged ‘Knuckledown’, a tender post-garage number swathed in ambient, ‘Tomorrow… Continue reading
The first time I met Tarik Badwan was about 6 years ago, long before he was doing anything to do with music, and even back then his sole purpose in life seemed to… Continue reading
Ω Originally featured in Crack Magazine ‘Landing On a Hundred’ is the first full album in 10 years from neo-soul champion Cody ChesnuTT, and without a doubt it is a magnificently rich, diverse, and… Continue reading
Exciting! Since announcing the end of Grinderman last December, Nick Cave hasn’t given away too much information away about his next record, which would inevitably be a return to The Bad Seeds for the first time since… Continue reading
Jai Paul is gradually raising the roof once again as the word spreads about a new track that was debuted on UK radio this weekend. The track, tentatively titled ‘Flip Out’ is a… Continue reading
Sherpa are a psychedelic power-pop outfit from New Zealand who recently grabbed my attention for the absolutely ridiculous content of their ‘Turtles’ video. The song itself is a super-bubbly and undeniably catchy pop… Continue reading
Wow. Big Deal just got BIG. Last time we checked they were teasing out sweet arpeggiated acoustic numbers and melting eardrums with soft vocals duets (‘Homework’), only drifting into waves of distortion to… Continue reading
With a combination of pitch-shifting overdrive guitars and Smashing Pumpkins-esque vocals, Carousels capture the spirit of the ‘90s perfectly in ‘Sweet Honey’. The Cambridge five-piece have been hailed for their colourful shoegazey sound,… Continue reading
Ex-Nine Black Alps member Martin Cohen’s new project Milk Maid isn’t too much of a departure from his former band’s output but fortunately it does retain all of their early ‘90s nostalgia and charm.… Continue reading
Stumbling across Psylus has pretty much made my day today. With a name like that I was expecting maybe an inexperienced dance producer who found it necessary to include ‘psy’ in his moniker so… Continue reading
Ω Originally featured in Crack Magazine At first glance, leisure centre venue York Hall does not quite fit in with the ‘alternate reality popstar’ vibe of Ariel Pink and his cohorts. With laminate… Continue reading
SECRET MUSIC!! Go to Foals’ website and enter ‘VEKSD’ to access this hidden remix! …Insanity! Opening like an angry ‘How Soon Is Now?’, Tom Vek’s remix of the new Foals single ‘Inhaler’… Continue reading
Without a doubt, Lone is one of our favourite acts to have come to prominence in the post-James Blake plateau established by R&S Records (see Vondelpark also). His best tracks can be characterized… Continue reading
Following on from the release of their debut album, ‘Shrines’, in July this year, Purity Ring now re-release the b-side to their first single: the haunting, eerie, beautiful ‘Lofticries’. Originally released in… Continue reading
