INTERVIEW – CERYS HAFANA – HARPIST

A gorgeous and inventive album, Cerys Hafana’s ‘Angel’ will be released on 26 September 2025 via Glitterbeat’s tak:til label imprint. It displays Hafana’s mastery of the Welsh triple harp and sees them joined by a trio of musicians (Ursula Harrison – double bass, Amie Huckstep – alto saxophone and Lisa Martin -drums) who add ideal […]
With Autumn fast approaching, the release schedule gains pace with plenty of top choices to pick from this week. James Yorkston              Songs for Nina and Johanna    The album is his sixteenth on Domino and his third to be recorded in Stockholm in conjunction with members of The Second Hand Orchestra. Nina Persson (The Cardigans), who […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 22 AUGUST 2025

ALBUM REVIEW – MODERN NATURE: THE HEAT WARPS

“The community we’ve built our life around – artists, musicians and the people who gravitate to these things as a way of communicating – are struggling to reconcile how they fit into an increasingly cruel world. This album, the themes and the lyrics are directed towards them because I think there are still reasons to […]
As the Premier League football season gets underway, it is fitting that the new album from Bobby Conn is as extreme an example of a record of two halves as is imaginable. While each side exists as an independent conception and could be played in either order, I will channel my inner Gary Neville and […]

ALBUM REVIEW – BOBBY CONN: BOBBY’S PLACE

ALBUM REVIEW – WATCHHOUSE: RITUALS

Watchhouse is a duo from North Carolina made up of Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz who both have immense talent and attitude. With that, their music confronts the dark side, trying to eradicate it from their own lives and minds. Though this is true, they do offer a musical avenue for the listener to navigate […]
Alison Goldfrapp          Flux       The album showcases some of her most undeniable pop hooks since Goldfrapp’s iconic album Supernature as well as her most poignantly vulnerable songwriting to date. Marissa Nadler              New Radiations             It features subtle instrumental arrangements from longtime collaborator Milky Burgess—woozy slide guitar, hypnagogic synthesizers, and gritty riffs. Genre‑bending yet quintessentially her own, this […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 15 AUGUST 2025

ALBUM REVIEW – SUNYEARS: THE SONG FORLORN

“I look at peers of mine I’ve worked with, like James Yorkston or Robert Forster, and those guys are auteurs, with a clear identity. They know exactly what they want to do. But, myself, I felt a little bit lost.” Peter Morén recounts the musical crossroads he reached after Peter Bjorn and John placed themselves […]
The 1990s was a halcyon time for adventurous guitar led music. Beyond the obvious American candidates such as Slint, Polvo and Trumans Water, there was a host of UK bands who were pushing the format to its limits. It was easy to overlook Prolapse in this category as the first thing that leaps out when […]

ALBUM REVIEW – PROLAPSE: I WONDER WHEN THEY’RE GOING TO DESTROY YOUR FACE

INTERVIEW: MANCHESTER PSYCHFEST RETURNS – WE CATCH UP WITH PROMOTERS NOW WAVE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS YEAR’S EVENT

Now Wave have been a fixture on the Manchester music scene for over a decade, putting on gigs by a variety of bands, both the more established ones and taking a chance on the newer bands too. Inventing a festival dedicated to the best new and established psychedelic bands around, Manchester Psych Fest is now […]
Having started out in their secondary school days in Mayo, Ireland, with Kyle Thornton on guitar and his mate Adam on drums, Nerves are now on the brink of a second EP that sees them pushing their eclectic, quaking noise-rock sound even further. “We were quite obviously going to end up forming a band,” Kyle […]

INTERVIEW – NERVES