ALBUM: TY SEGALL AND WHITE FENCE – JOY

By the time you read this review, Ty Segall will have probably released two more albums, three EPs and four collaborations with others, such is his prolific output. His last collaboration with White Fence, aka Tim Presley, ‘Hair’ released in 2012 was one of his best , those heavy guitar riffs met with lighter acoustic […]

They’re from Brooklyn, named after the term for a corner shop in NY, and play a frenetic stream of consciousness style racket – it’s easy to see why Parquet Courts’ guitarist, Austin Brown, has produced them, as they’re musically not a million miles away from his own band’s jagged guitar riffs and dry vocal style– […]

ALBUM: BODEGA – ENDLESS SCROLL

ALBUM: JOHNNY MARR – CALL THE COMET

We all like time to catch up on the big stories of the day, but Johnny Marr has been absorbing the news and world events in new extremes, apparently via a screen projected on to a wall in the studio whilst ‘Call The Comet’ was being written and recorded. It’s the events of the last […]

Gloomy in the wind Ironically enough, the nice guys from The Wave Pictures bring us the brand new and rather melancholic album titled ‘Brushes With Happiness’ out tomorrow Friday 22nd June, under the wings of Moshi Moshi. Don’t be misled by the title then. Expect a bunch of songs that will very likely break your […]

ALBUM: THE WAVE PICTURES – BRUSHES WITH HAPPINESS

ALBUM: GIRLS NAMES – STAINS ON SILENCE

This Belfast three piece have already been nominated for the Irish music prize for their 2013 album, ‘The New Life’, and previously released singles on Brooklyn’s coolest indie label Captured Tracks (a former home to the likes of Thee Oh Sees, Mac De Marco and DIIV amongst others). Having shifted away from their earlier more […]

Tranquility Base was a name given to the section of the moon where in 1969 the Apollo 11 astronauts landed, and the idea of a hotel and casino on the exact spot on the moon, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked, is as bonkers as the rest of this album! The sixth Arctic Monkeys […]

ALBUM: ARCTIC MONKEYS – TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL & CASINO

ALBUM: DMA’S – FOR NOW

Let’s face it, Australian bands have a knack for a great melody. From The Go Betweens to The Hummingbirds , bands down under know how to jangle a guitar or two, and current kings of the pop guitar jangle seem to be The DMAs. Now on their second album, they’ve taken the indie guitar sounds […]

Frank Turner has now been releasing solo albums for over ten years, yet it only seems like yesterday since he launched his first sonic blast of social commentary and personal poetry into an unsuspecting musical scene. He’s had his fair share of criticism though, mostly stemming from the fact that he went to Eton, and […]

ALBUM: FRANK TURNER – BE MORE KIND

ALBUM: EELS – THE DECONSTRUCTION

When Eels first emerged in 1995, they were lumped in with all the ‘slacker’ bands around at the time, and although Mark ‘E’ Everett’s vocals do lend themselves nicely to that laid back categorisation, Eels have always been uniquely different. Eels’ songs have been used in tons of films and TV shows, and I’ve got […]

The fact that Yo La Tengo have existed for over thirty years, with a consistently strong but still relatively underground appeal, could be one of the reasons behind the title of their fifteenth album. Not that Yo La Tengo are in anyway riotous, well at least not in an obvious way. Theirs is a slower, […]