“On March the twenty-third, she said something so absurd, she said: you love to be in love but you never really love.” So Darren Hayman sang as lead singer of Hefner a little over ten years ago on their seminal…
Category: Records
Album | Thea Gilmore & Sandy Denny – Don’t Stop Singing
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…
EP | Michael Kiwanuka – I’m Getting Ready
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…
EP | Jens Lekman – An Argument With Myself
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…
Album | Still Corners – Creatures of an Hour
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…
Album | The Moth and the Mirror – Honestly, this world
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…
Album | Jeffrey Lewis – A Turn In The Dream Song
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.…
Album | Shimmering Stars – Violent Hearts
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…
Album | Stealing Sheep – I Am The Rain
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…
Album | The Ridges – The Ridges
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…