ALBUM REVIEW – HIROSHI YOSHIMURA: QUIET FOREST

The Japanese ambient music scene is one that stretches back decades, with many TV adverts making use of this relaxing and peaceful sound in the 80s and 90s. This album was originally recorded in 1993, so it fits right into the time period. Hiroshi Yoshimura based these songs off his visit to Hoh Rain Forest […]
A slight change to this week’s round up as amongst its multitude of releases is a bumper package from the hermetically sealed Medway scene which gets its own sub-section. Thee Headcoats            Children of the Sect    Thee Headcoatees       Ev’rybody’s Gonna Be Happy Ludella Black  No One Makes A Fool Out Of Me          Armitage Shanks           Charge of […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 13 NOVEMBER 2026

LIVE REVIEW – THE SCRIPT: CO-OP LIVE – 7 NOVEMBER 2026

Danny O’Donoghue – perhaps the ‘Man in the Arena’ of this tour’s name – is not only in the Co-Op Arena but in the crowd, singing and dancing with the fans. A disciple of the magical melee of the live music experience, O’Donoghue is a hard-working showman with a neat line in spinning around on […]
Three short months after TURN OFF THE TV, Crawlers are already back with another new EP, LIVE WITH THIS. Ensuring people stay talking about them with such a small gap between releases is a smart move, and they have the music to back the discussion up. Opening the EP is BIRTHDAY, a definite change in […]

EP REVIEW – CRAWLERS: LIVE WITH THIS

ALBUM REVIEW – DAINE: IN ENDLESS AWE & AGONY

“I’m wrapped in the passion, hopelessly attaching” Every now and then, the usually vapid and borderline toxic social media algorithms will throw up something so unlike itself. Something full of wonderful personality, of life, of individualistic nature. The song had barely began playing, but whilst the guitarist was revving up that iconic riff from Martin […]
For the third time in four weeks, I find myself sat reviewing an album containing a version of ‘Hares on the Mountain’. Following its appearance on new releases from Flora Hibberd, and Johnny and Lillie Flynn, it now appears on the debut album from Radie Peat, the vocalist with Lankum. It is an almighty coincidence […]

ALBUM REVIEW – RADIE PEAT: NO HUMAN TONGUE CAN TELL

ALBUM REVIEW – MICHAEL KIWANUKA: FUDGE

“We’re nowhere if we never sing” When I first heard about the latest Michael Kiwanuka album due to come out, entitled “FUDGE”, I was. Taken aback to say the least. By everything. The name was atypical. All caps, like it was shouting out at me, and a name that didn’t seem fitting for a Kiwanuka […]
Yoo Doo Right                 Build and Rest by the Shepherd’s Light           For the latest chapter of their sonic manifesto, Yoo Doo Right engage with deep sonic exploration, purposeful looping motifs, and dynamic walls of sound, reigniting their unwavering connection to experimental music. Party Dozen      21 Bum Salute Sydney experimental psych-noise-pop duo consisting of Kirsty Tickle […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 6 NOVEMBER 2026

SINGLE REVIEW – PIPPA BLUNDELL (FEATURING FERGUS MCCREADIE): DURISDEER

The magnificent new standalone single from Pippa Blundell is a one-off in many ways. It sees her joined for the first time by Mercury Prize nominated jazz pianist, Fergus McCreadie, for a reimagining of a traditional Scots song composed by Lady Jane Scott in the 1800s. Their contemporary reworking sends the song in directions the […]
What does nostalgia sound like to a generation that has never quite known a world offline? For Dublin collective Bricknasty, the answer lies somewhere between the soulful familiarity of 2000s R&B and the pixelated futurism of old PS2 soundtracks. Their fourth project, forever, explores musical contradiction: it feels analogue yet digital, organic yet technological and […]

EP REVIEW – BRICKNASTY: FOREVER