Author: Joe Sweeting

Album | Hannah Cohen – Pleasure Boy

Having been touted as the ‘new’ Lana Del Ray, Hannah Cohen returns with the follow up to her 2012 release Child Time with a much more stylised, bolder release in Pleasure Boy.  On a base level, it is a record…

Album | The Staves – If I Was

Watford is not a town traditionally known for having a rich musical heritage.  Camilla, Emily and Jessica, the three sisters making up The Staves, are doing all they can to remedy this fact, returning with a brilliant sophomore record, If…

Album | The Lone Bellow – Then Came the Morning

Americana, or, to be more precise, the folk-roots of American music, has seen a resurgence over the past two or three years, and the Lone Bellow are the musical embodiment of everything that has made the genre fashionable. Big, sing-a-long…

EP | Los Campesinos! – A Los Campesinos! Christmas

Los Campesinos! are a band that can do no wrong. Since the release of ‘Hold on Now, Youngster’, way back in 2007, the band has gone on to make four further LPs, and a smattering of EPs released through bi-annual…

Album | Frazey Ford – Indian Ocean

It is so refreshing to be blown away by an artist who, previous to this record, had been unknown to this writer, and especially with a record as strong as Indian Ocean, which over the course of its 40 minutes…

EP | Peter Broderick- (Colours of the Night) Satellite

To say the past two years have been difficult for Peter Broderick would be putting it mildly. Having to return to America from his home in Berlin due to illness meant that music was, unsurprisingly, put on the proverbial backburner…

Albums | Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams

Over his 14 year solo career since leaving Whiskeytown, Ryan Adams has released 14 albums, ranging from the Americana sounds of 2011’s Ashes & Fire to the rather more obscure metal of Orion. Adams is a modern day musical chameleon, hopping…

Album | Perfume Genius – Too Bright

Mike Hadreas, operating under the Perfume Genius moniker, returns with Too Bright, his third record and his best by some lengths. After the underground success of Learning and Put Your Back N 2 it, this record should be the one to…

Album | Dry The River – Alarms in the Heart

Returning with the follow up to 2012’s Shallow Bed, Dry the River have created an album much fuller in sound and vision in Alarms in the Heart, which should see them please old fans and attract new ones along the…