ALBUM REVIEW – SHURA: I GOT TOO SAD FOR MY FRIENDS

Shura’s latest album reads like a deep sigh – but not one of relief. Instead, it feels like someone looking at a precarious, unforgiving world and not finding much solace at all. Moments of euphoria are few and far between across an understated, but quietly urgent set of songs that consolidate Shura as a master […]
Sometimes, a voice can bubble away in the background, a pleasant enough accompaniment on the radio, gradually infiltrating the senses until eventually the realisation dawns that it is something special. Such a description could be applied to my appreciation of Joan Wasser who is about to release her tenth studio album under the moniker of […]

ALBUM REVIEW – JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN: LEMONS, LIMES AND ORCHIDS

ALBUM REVIEW: GHOSTPOET ‘DARK DAYS AND CANAPES’

Often, despite writing poetry, I don’t know where the line is between poetry and song lyrics. Thankfully the mumbled spoken word of Ghostpoet stops the questions and starts the listening as he oscillates between the depth and meaning of poetry and experimental electronic sounds. I don’t know what the genre tag is for his music […]
After two years up in the stratosphere with the hugely successful The Race For Space, Public Service Broadcasting are returning to earth with new album, Every Valley, due to be released Friday 7th July 2017. With J. Willgoose, Esq. who has an established reputation for weaving forensic, historical research into evocative storytelling – this time […]

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING REVEAL NEW ALBUM RELEASE DETAILS

Album Review: Mudhoney – Vanishing Point

9 albums and 25 years later, Mudhoney provide an album of psychedelic alternative rock that keeps them at the pinnacle of “that sound”! Usually lumped in with grunge, Mudhoney were always a little bit more and this album shows why. From the opening scatter drums, bass driven, riff monster that is ‘Slipping Away’ the gentlemen […]
Two years on from the release of his Mercury nominated debut, ‘Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam’, Ghostpoet announces his sophomore album ‘Some Say I So I Say Light’ which will be released on the 6th May 2013 through Play It Again Sam. Obaro Ejimiwe, aka Ghostpoet, laughs when he remembers how Gilles Peterson “took […]

NEWS: GHOSTPOET – NEW ALBUM DETAILS + UK LIVE DATES

NEWS: COCOROSIE – HEAR THE NEW SINGLE ‘WE ARE ON FIRE’

‘We Are On Fire’ is the new single from CocoRosie, the celebrated duo comprising US-born, Paris-based sisters Sierra and Bianca Casady and named for their childhood nicknames. It offers a glimpse into the sisters’ intricately spun, thoroughly imagined world, their music incorporating elements from opera, electronica, and folk; tied together with fairytale lyrics. ‘We Are […]