ALBUM REVIEW – U.S. GIRLS: SCRATCH IT

“You gotta dance til you feel better.” So begins ‘Like James Said’, the James Brown quoting opener to Meg Remy’s latest album as U.S. Girls, ‘Scratch It’. While it might be more appropriate to categorise the nine tracks that comprise the record as hyper-emotional pop music, they also occasionally scratch the urge to dance. “Stretch […]
Two friends embrace in the foyer of the Aviva Unilever Proctor & Gamble Tony Wilson Factory Arena Studios International (I think that’s it’s full name?) after this most magical of Adrianne Lenker performances: “What are you doing here?!” “Crying!” Two partners next to me watch on in hushed rapture, intertwined in each other’s embrace, heads […]

LIVE REVIEW: ADRIENNE LENKER -AVIVA STUDIOS 25/04/24

ALBUM REVIEW – ADRIENNE LENKER: BRIGHT FUTURE

The first time I listened to this album, I wanted to be sat in the bath. I felt that I needed to be embraced by the warmth of the water, feeling each word that fell from Adrienne’s mouth wash over me, hoping to distract myself from the emotion that would arise. I left my face […]
Pixies influence on music is undeniable. They played a major role in developing the loud/quiet template, with the emphasis on the noisy part, that the likes of Nirvana went on to exploit commercially. On a personal level, they were my sound of 1988 and their music is entwined forever with memories of emotionally turbo-charged gigs […]

ALBUM REVIEW – PIXIES: PIXIES AT THE BBC, 1988-91

LUCINDA CHUA’S RECENTLY RELEASED TRACK ‘UNTIL I FALL’ OPENS UP HER SECOND EP ‘ANTIDOTES 2’

Lucinda Chua, a singer, songwriter, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in South London and newly signed to 4AD, has released a second EP of solo work, ‘Antidotes 2’. The EP’s opening track ‘Until I Fall’ with an accompanying video directed by William Kennedy. Chua says: “For me, this song is about rebirth and finding the […]
Future Islands new video for ‘Glada’ has been unveiled from their 2020 album ‘As Long As You Are’. Directed by actress and frontman Sam Herring’s partner, Julia Ragnarsson, who makes her directorial debut, it was edited by the renowned Ponyhans. It features the Swedish countryside and follows a lasting love between characters as the changing […]

FUTURE ISLANDS PRESENT NEW VIDEO FOR ‘GLADA’

ALDOUS HARDING IS ‘IMAGINING MY MAN’ WITH NEW VIDEO WITH 4AD DEBUT ALBUM OUT MAY

Following the recent single ‘Horizon’ – a lover’s call to arms which also features on her 4AD debut – Aldous Harding releases its follow-up. Check out new single and video for ‘Imagining My Man’; an intensely intimate listen as Aldous explores the curiosity of a lover’s idiosyncrasies. The video was created by ‘Horizon’ director Charlotte […]
I fell hard for Future Islands when I heard ‘Seasons (Waiting For You)’ from their last album – 2014’s Singles.  To be more accurate I fell in love when I saw them play the track on Jools Holland – that lush, buxom electronic backdrop and lead singer Samuel T. Herring’s impassioned vocals.  Actually to be […]

ALBUM: FUTURE ISLANDS – THE FAR FIELD

THE LEMON TWIGS POKE US WITH ‘I WANNA PROVE TO YOU’ VIDEO BEFORE UK TOUR NEXT MONTH

The Lemon Twigs share their new video for ‘I Wanna Prove To You’. Watch the video below. The Lemon Twigs are teenage brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario from Long Island, NY. Check out their debut album, Do Hollywood, out now, which was recorded in Los Angeles with Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado. Having recently performed on The […]
The talented New Zealand-er Aldous Harding, has recently joined the 4AD family. She now shares new song ‘Horizon’, presenting a powerful opening statement, alongside a startling companion video. Having recently opened for label mates Deerhunter, Aldous Harding will be bringing her extraordinary live show to the UK and Europe later this year. ALDOUS HARDING MAY […]

ALDOUS HARDING RELEASES NEW SINGLE & VIDEO FOR ‘HORIZON’