ALBUM REVIEW: FEMI KUTI & MADE KUTI – LEGACY +

Legacy+ is a double album featuring Stop the Hate, the 11th studio release from Femi Kuti (son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti) alongside For(e)ward, the debut album of Femi’s son Made. Surely no style of music has been so inextricably linked to a single family as Afrobeat is to the Kutis since the Bachs basically […]
They may have been part of the Creation Records scene in the early 90’s but The Telescopes are a band who have led the way in psychedelic swirling indie for over thirty years. Now very much the solo project of Stephen Lawrie, The Telescopes have a new album on the horizon, ‘Songs Of Love And […]

INTERVIEW: THE TELESCOPES

Shame - Drunk Tank Pink

ALBUM REVIEW: SHAME – DRUNK TANK PINK

‘Shame! Shame! Shame!’ No, you haven’t landed in an episode of Game of Thrones or Boris Johnson’s email inbox, but the review for the new Shame album “Drunk Tank Pink”. The alt-rock/post-punk band return with their second album, the bigger and better follow up to their promising debut.  The album itself goes bigger than the […]
Here Lies Man vocalist Marcos Garcia says, of their new album Ritual Divination: ‘It’s an inward psychedelic journey, the album is the trip’. He says ‘Musically, it’s an opening up more to traditional rock elements.’ – and it’s easy to hear Black Sabbath and Steppenwolf and the retro theatre organ evokes Hush by Deep Purple. […]

ALBUM REVIEW: HERE LIES MAN – RITUAL DIVINATION

ALBUM REVIEW: THE KILLS – LITTLE BASTARDS

As a happy accident of this devastating, pandemic situation, Domino Records’ boss Laurence Bell came up with the wonderful idea of gathering The Kills’ B sides and rarities in a double album, aptly titled “Little Bastards”: A bunch of 20 lost, hidden-in-digital-platforms gems that the British-American duo released between 2002-09.  All tracks have been remastered by […]
As 2020 (thankfully) draws to a close and the “best albums of 2020” lists published, I’m hoping there remains a spot for this cosmically inspired entry from the sample-based group The Avalanches. This album was four years in the making, compared to the sixteen gap between their critically lauded first album ‘Since I Left You’ […]

ALBUM REVIEW: THE AVALANCHES – WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

SINGLE REVIEW: SHALLOW WATERS – THE GOD YOU KNOW YOU ARE

Arriving at a time of great uncertainty, Shallow Waters new single “The God You Know You Are” gives listeners the keys to a world to get lost in. The band originate from Wigan (aka the pie capital of Britain) and bring with them an expansive single that announces their ambitions clearer than a foghorn on […]
Since the release of 2017’s Flying Microtonal Banana, Australian psych-rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have always hinted at further exploration into the world of microtonal tuning. Now studio album number sixteen KG, finally delivers with an amalgamation of microtones and essences of previous albums adding to their ever-present and diverse musical odysseys. Beginning […]

ALBUM REVIEW: KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – KG

R.O.C

VIDEO PREMIERE: R.O.C ‘COME BACK JONEE’ + Q&A WITH THE BAND

We’re delighted to present the video premiere of ‘Come Back Jonee’ by R.O.C. The video is for their cover of the Devo song that featured on last year’s ‘Bile & Celestial Beauty’ album. In addition to the video, on December 10th R.O.C will also release a free remix of the song and a film of […]
Bradford make their return in 2021, with their first album in over 30 years. Their new album, ‘Bright Hours’, will feature the acclaimed producer Stephen Street and two other original members of the band (Ian H and Ewan Butler). They have so far released two singles from the upcoming album. The debut single, ‘Like Water’, […]
Bradford

Q&A WITH BRADFORD AS THEY PREPARE TO RELEASE A NEW ALBUM