Ever the eccentric, it almost seems on this occasion as though Russell has set out to collate the least appealing set of words ever to appear on an album cover. Long-term devotees will not be put off, though, and nor…
Category: Records
News | Mumford & Sons beat Bublé to Number 1
Album | Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo – Dear River
Album | Lady Maisery – Mayday
Album | Cajita – Tiny Ghosts
Album | Harry Mundy – Colour Myself Back In
London’s Harry Mundy is far from alone among English musicians who look across the Atlantic for their inspiration, but the story behind his debut album Colour Myself Back In seems to be one of those too-good-to-be-true tales from a land…
EP | Keston Cobblers’ Club – A Scene Of Plenty
It is said that many years ago in the village of Keston, in the London Borough of Bromley, the local cobbler would spend the evenings playing his fiddle to the raucous village rabble. The music he played was so foot-stomping…
Album | Jon Byrne – Built By Angels
Barrow-in-Furness, the shipbuilding ‘cul-de-sac town’ of Cumbria is, by his own admission, responsible for shaping many of Jon Byrne’s tales. On his impressive first album, It’s Boring Being in Control, these were tales of a working-class existence consisting of neighbours…
EP | Nick Mulvey – Fever To The Form
Nick Mulvey’s new EP opens with a riff very similar to the first album of a fledgling Laura Marling. But once Mulvey is under way his own sound bursts through, crushing previous allusions to the current poster girl of folk.…
Listen | Men’s Adventures – Solitary Trip EP
For most of the weekend I’ve had the new EP from Men’s Adventures on repeat. Now is your chance to do pretty much the same yourselves with a stream of Solitary Trip in full. Alfie and Jimmy, the two chaps…