
Forgive me please a first-person review, but I feel quite personally about Paul Thomas Saunders. The first gig I ever reviewed, four or five years ago now, was a launch show for his first EP Four Songs In Twilight which…
Ellen was the first one to say what we’d all been thinking: it felt like an indoor festival. As the last of a beautiful day’s sunshine poured in through the open windows on the top floor of Leeds’ Munro House…
Howie Payne, former front man of The Stands, will unveil his latest solo work as he begins a short UK tour by appearing in Leeds as part of a show put on by Ellen Smith of FFS favourites Ellen &…
With recent EP Descartes Highlands, Paul Thomas Saunders has revealed a gift for transmuting melancholia into a kind of subdued euphoria. Named after an area on the nearside of the moon, the EP is a collection of sonic lunarscapes to…
The latest EP from 20-year-old singer-songwriter Paul Thomas Saunders is a shimmering kaleidoscope of eerie nostalgia and twinkling pianos, which, despite its melancholy air, manages to evoke optimism and euphoria in its hypnotic beats. Named after the area on the…