Author: Joe Skrebels

Joe is a layabout, grammar enthusiast and part-time Latvian. He tweets under the moniker of @2plus2isjoe and blogs at Music From A Green Window.

Album: Lissie – Catching a Tiger

It’s clear from the outset what Lissie’s target market is; from her album cover to her “image”, this is pure pop. However, in listening to her music, Lissie has a little something different to her popular peers, a sense of…

Album: The National – High Violet

There’s something frighteningly well thought out about High Violet – over its 47 minute duration every song seems perfectly well placed to create the mood that the band want you to feel. Whilst it’s certainly not a concept album there…

Album: To My Boy – The Habitable Zone

This writer remembers, back in the days of (gulp) new-rave, turning on a music channel and being faced with To My Boy playing hyperactive post punk chords and glitchy Atari beeps whilst singing from the point of view of an…