Five years after the release of their debut LP, Life Embarrasses Me On Planet Earth, San Francisco’s Seventeen Evergreen have made a return with new album ‘Steady On, Scientist!’, via Lucky Number. The album is about space and density – the polarity and the duplicity of life. Names like New Order, Air, Screamadelica-era Primal Scream, […]
FatCat’s ‘post-classical’ imprint 130701 Records will be represented in live venues across Europe in May by Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hauschka and Dustin O’Halloran. Included in this stretch of dates is a triple headline bill at London’s Barbican Hall on May 18th, for details of the show seehttp://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=12895. Also worth checking is this month’s Barbican’s Music Podcast […]
Sydney’s Jonathan Boulet is set to release a new album ‘We Keep The Beat, Found The Sound, See The Need, Start The Heart’ via Modular Recordings on 11th June in the UK. To whet people’s appetites, this experimental prodigy is giving away a free track from the album in form of ‘Trounce’. ‘We Keep The Beat…’ is a […]
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At the beginning of the year London quartet Trailer Trash Tracys released their debut album “Ester”, a gorgeous, beguiling collection of pop songs with an intriguingly offbeam slant which quickly earned them glowing accolades from the broadsheets to the style press. The intervening months has only seen their profile grow exponentially, as they have journeyed around Europe […]
When discussing ‘Father John Misty’, Tillman paraphrases Philip Roth: ‘It’s all of me and none of me, if you can’t see that, you won’t get it’. What I call it is totally arbitrary, but I like the name. You’ve got to have a name. I never got to choose mine.” He goes on, “‘People who […]
Formed in 2004, the technical ability and deft musicality displayed in the Chicago quartet’s early EP releases saw Maps & Atlases labelled with a ‘math-rock’/ ‘post-rock’ tag, but the band have consistently defied easy categorization – perhaps a factor in engendering such a fervently loyal fanbase . Beware and Be Grateful – recorded last year in a series […]
Keep Shelly In Athens has unveiled the new video for ‘Our Own Dream’ alongside plans to re-release their first two Forest Family EPs and news of a May UK/EU tour (full details below). The EPs ‘In Love With Dusk’ and ‘Our Own Dream’ are available now digitally as one package in the UK and US here with a vinyl release to follow […]
TOY release their second single, Motoring, on Monday April 16th 2012. It will be available on 7” vinyl and download through Heavenly Recordings. Motoring follows their debut 12” only double A-side release, Left Myself Behind / Clock Chime, which is now on its 4th re-pressing. Having supported the Horrors at the end of 2011, they recently completed a sold-out 4-week residency at […]
Squarepusher’s ‘Ufabulum’ is released on 14th/May. We can now announce further product information including special edition vinyl, CD and LP-T format (the vinyl and T-shirt are printed in phosphorescent & normal ink), plus there’s more music available in the form of 3 track Enstrobia EP with special CD & vinyl editions of the album. Order […]
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ALBUM REVIEW - YAMILA: NOOR
ALBUM REVIEW - JD MEATYARD: THE MISSION
ALBUM REVIEW - MAYHEM: LITURGY OF DEATH
ALBUM REVIEW - THE MOLOTOVS: WASTED ON YOUTH
SINGLE REVIEW - PIPPA BLUNDELL: BIG BEAR
ALBUM REVIEW - CONGRATULATIONS: JOIN HANDS
GIG GUIDE - FEBRUARY 2026
ALBUM REVIEW - CORY WONG: LOST IN THE WONDER
LIVE REVIEW - WESTSIDE COWBOY: MANCHESTER GORILLA - 29/01/2026
