In 2007, while compiling Sandy Denny’s unrecorded material for what would become last year’s monumental eponymous 19CD box set, the late Fairport Convention singer’s estate uncovered several sets of lyrics unused and unscored before her untimely passing in 1978, aged 31. These were then entrusted to lifelong Fairport fan Thea Gilmore, and Don’t Stop...
Comparisons have been made between Michael Kiwanuka’s music and that of soul legends like Bill Withers. These comparisons are surely merited, as Kiwanuka constructs simple, steady, and heartfelt songs. He prefers to ensure that he has an earnest voice to creating something overly elaborate. Michael Kiwanuka’ latest EP I’m Getting Ready is very calm...
Jens Lekman’s new EP, An Argument With Myself, is his first release for four years, something that fans of his are possibly not used to given his usually impressive work rate. His thirteenth EP is a very relaxed affair but it is a very cohesive collection nonetheless. His stories, as ever, are great. In...
Dream pop as a genre is one that has always been associated with a certain kind of hazy, washed out ambience, one that reflects everything from youthful malaise to the kind of exhausted post-coital joy that only the most practiced of retro French movie characters can muster. It’s a difficult trick to pull off,...
This debut album from the Moth and the Mirror has been highly anticipated by many in the Scottish music scene and beyond. Sometimes, with an album so anticipated, it can often be hard to live up to expectation but I am happy to report that it certainly doesn’t disappoint. The Moth and the Mirror...
The leaves have browned and are falling in Central Park, busloads of tourists are flocking in for the storybook ‘autumn in New York’ experience, and the countdown is on to the Hallowe’en Parade. Jeffrey Lewis, meanwhile, should be home by Christmas. He bases himself in Manhattan, collects his mail from Cooper Station Post Office on...
It’s the 1950s again! Or is it the 60s? Or the 80s? It’s hard to tell. Violent Hearts, the debut album from Vancouver three-piece Shimmering Stars, is an album unapologetically moored in the past – not any specific past, though, or any specific bit of the past, just definitely not now. It’s good old-fashioned rock ‘n’...
Here in Somerset we have a long founded tradition, one that’s forged a rite of passage for many a disaffected reprobate. Sheep tossing. Without the wit to steal one of these roaming clouds, but the itch to do something, as we are surrounded by the buggers, sheep tossing became the logical outflow of misdirected...
The Ridges call their music “orchestral folk rock”, and they’d very much like you to believe that that’s true. The opening track on their self-titled mini-album (as an aside, what makes a five track mini-album different to an EP? Answers below please) certainly seems to suggest that status too, beginning as it does with...
Let’s Buy Happiness – Dirty Lakes After their ethereal debut with the single Six Wolves and its enchanting B side, Wood Rings, and their chirpy, rhythmic follow-up Fast Fast,, Let’s Buy Happiness have chosen to combine the two sounds for their latest release, Dirty Lakes. Anthemic, twisted organ sounds draw your ears in, just...
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