ALBUM REVIEW – BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE: REMEMBER THE HUMANS

At the turn of the century, when pen and paper fell to the rise of technology, a new sound emerged, blurring the line between analogue intimacy and digital noise. Broken Social Scene have never operated like a conventional band. Formed in Toronto in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, they exist more as an […]
McKinley Dixon is one of the few rappers who can drop a bar like “my target audience is everyone with heart,” and have it feel honest, earned, and true. The music is just that spirited and joyous it would genuinely take someone heartless to find fault, and the slinky flows, compelling thematic depth and luscious […]

ALBUM REVIEW – MCKINLEY DIXON: MAGIC, ALIVE!

ALBUM REVIEW – ANNA B SAVAGE: YOU & I ARE EARTH

On her previous album, ‘in/FLUX’, Anna B Savage cut a bracingly solitary figure. The title track saw her proclaiming with a Garbo-esque flourish, “I want to be alone / I’m happy on my own” while even the more soothing closing song, ‘The Orange’ had her maintaining in measured tones, “don’t want kids or a partner […]
Brighton based Lambrini Girls offer a raucous punk debut which musically isn’t anything new, but it certainly attempts to get in your face. I like that. It’s not my favourite vial of post punk in the world. That shouting-in-a-southern-accent-core, which has entered the alt indie sphere in recent years, can rub me up the wrong […]

ALBUM REVIEW – LAMBRINI GIRLS: WHO LET THE DOGS OUT

ALBUM REVIEW – TINDERSTICKS: SOFT TISSUE

When the first Tindersticks album emerged in 1993, immediately they stood out from other bands within the independent sector. Their lush, orchestrated sound, decorated with pianos and violins, was at odds with the prevailing zeitgeist. This was the post-grunge era that also saw the first glimmers of what would become Britpop, both highly conservative forms […]
After releasing seven studio albums, it would have been easy for Ahmed Gallab the multi-instrumentalist who records as Sinkane to believe he knew everything necessary about making music. Instead, commendably, he enrolled on a masters course in composition at SUNY Purchase. The course honed both his composing and listening skills as each week he would […]

ALBUM REVIEW – SINKANE: WE BELONG

HEAR THE FIRST TRACK IN FIVE YEARS FROM CARIBOU + UK TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

Dan Snaith aka Caribou has today shared a new track ‘Home’. The track is his first new music in five years since the release of Our Love – his universally adored sixth album which received critical acclaim including top five positions in ‘End of Year’ lists from the likes of The Guardian, NME, Mixmag and […]
Lambchop recently announced their new album This (is what I wanted to tell you) will be released on 22nd March 2019 via City Slang. Along with the announcement they shared the lead single ‘The December-ish you’ and they have now followed up the video for ‘Everything for you’, directed by Jonny Sanders. The track which […]

LAMBCHOP SHARE ‘EVERYTHING FOR YOU’ VIDEO

ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF SHARES ‘THE TRUTH, THE GLOW, THE FALL’

With her spell-binding fourth album, ‘Dead Magic’ set for release on March 2nd 2018 via City Slang, Anna von Hausswolff has shared second track ‘The Truth, The Glow, The Fall’ from the record. ‘Dead Magic’, Anna von Hausswolff’s fourth album, is five songs extending over 47 minutes and 20 seconds and was composed in the […]
With his debut album Digging A Tunnel set for release Friday 10th March 2017 via City Slang, Gothenburg artist sir Was; the musical alias of Joel Wästberg, is sharing another slice of his unorthodox take on hip-hop, soul, and electronica with new single & video ‘Revoke’. Directed by Swedish artist Fredrik Egerstrand, who also directed […]

SIR WAS SHARES NEW SINGLE & VIDEO, ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM, AND UNVEILS EUROPEAN TOUR NEWS – BOMBARD-TASTIC!