NEWS: VICTORIES AT SEA – DEBUT EP / HOMETOWN LAUNCH SHOW
Victories at seas debut EP will be released on Static Caravan Recordings on 3rd July 2013 and is available on preorder at http://www.normanrecords.com/records/141076-victories-at-sea-in-memory The EP contains 4 tracks, three of which never previously released and was recorded in Birmingham earlier this year. To celebrate the release they will be playing an intimate launch show at Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham on Friday 21st June. The next day they... Read More
LISTEN: TOKOLOSH – DEBUT SINGLE ‘THE HOLLOW/TOKOHORSE’
TOKOLOSH is the coming together of a collection of Manchester musicians, Christian and Nicky Madden and Richard Young from The Earlies, Nathan Sudders from The Whip and Liam Frost. Liam, who is the band’s sole lyricist, describes the lyrical content of the songs as “a slant on the desperate and obsessive nature of love and adult relationships” and admits they are somewhat darker than his solo recordings. A collision of soul, R&B, heavy tribal... Read More
ALBUM: Hannah Peel – The Broken Wave
I like “wonky”. I like “folk”. Man, truth be told, I even like “pop”. So Hannah Peel’s description of her style as Wonky Folk Pop right away pitches her 100% centre-stage on my radar. Hannah’s star is definitely on the rise, with reviewers blanketing pretty much everything she turns her hand to with praise (and that includes Rebox, her EP of reworkings of eighties classics via the medium of the music box). A low key support slot... Read More
ALBUM: The Dark Sky Singers – Like No English
Unusually in these times saturated with the minutiae of celebrity life, there is no superlative press release issued with this EP and little information available on the internet. This paucity of background detail is a predicament faced by those reviewing this EP before me, if the scant online critiques are anything to go by. However, from what I can glean via a Holmesian trawl through their official website and others, The Dark Sky Singers are... Read More
SINGLE: THE HORNBLOWER BROTHERS – GIVE & RECEIVERS/GHOST OF KEROUAC
Damn, blast and bother! The Hornblower Brothers have gone and given me a bit of a dilemma (no not one of those cars similar to a Jaguar, although that would be nice). I have a playlist on my Ipod for my walk to work every morning and there is only one rule, and that rule is that I can’t have more than one track by any artist or band. So when I received an email from the HBs drummer Antony that contained a download link for the two tracks that they... Read More
