Category: Reviews

EP: Lissie – Why You Runnin’ (Fat Possum)

So I have been trying to figure out where I have seen this angelical face of Lissie, with this profound and roaring voice like a storm; and I can’t, for the love of me, remember at all. It is one…

EP: Caitlin Rose – Dead Flowers

Nashville’s Caitlin Rose sings and sounds like June Carter. She’s part of a new generation of country folk singers but her debut EP Dead Flowers could have been lifted straight from the late 1960s. It’s full of catchy little country-esque…

Album: First Aid Kit – The Big The Black and the Blue

Callum Mitchell says: “First Aid Kit have made an album way beyond their years; their sound evoking an image of a couple of worn out, world-weary housewives sat on their Kentucky porch strumming away and singing songs of lost lovers and meetings with the dead”

Album: Get Well Soon – Vexations

The recurring theme throughout Get Well Soon’s music is a constant contrast between light and dark; good and bad; heaven and hell. The first clue is in the dark connotations behind the bands name, an illness not yet treated, no…

Album: Owen Pallett – Heartland

In this day and age, labels and radios and whatnot are trying so hard to come up with the best new thing, the latest emerging sound, the never-heard-before band, that marvellous break-through act. And in assonance, there are musicians trying…

Single: Liam Frost – Your Hand In Mine (feat. Martha Wainwright)

‘Your Hand In Mine’ is a hard-hitting track that is interjected with a fantastically infectious barbershop backing vocal from Martha Wainwright. The song’s pelting rhythm pushes it forward, whilst Frost and Wainwright’s combined vocals provide an intoxicating harmony for the…

Album: Broadcast 2000

Gemma Hampson says: “Broadcast 2000 is a fitting name for this London-based indie-folk what not. Although it’s the first full-length album from the group, it will most definitely not be the first time you have heard them. Even without the discovery of their 2008-released EP ‘Building Blocks’, their sound is getting around. A film here (Yes Man), a soap there (Hollyoaks), even an ad blasted into every front room in the land.”

Album: Andrew Vincent – Rotten Pear

Jonathan Wilson writes… “As a reviewer it’s all too easy to dismiss solo acoustic artists as ‘just another one of those singer/songwriter fellows’ and upon first listening to Rotten Pear I fell straight into that trap. Who is Andrew Vincent, what’s he on about and if I’m honest why should I even care, why would anybody care? After all, he’s just another man singing about the same old stuff – “I don’t want nobody else/No, I want you” for example. Not yet ready to tackle the banality of another singer/songwriter I switched off the record player and switched on the ever-so-slightly less mind-numbingly inane Hollyoaks omnibus.”

Album: Nancy Elizabeth – Wrought Iron

There’s about a billion different ways to approach the classification of music, ranging from the very obvious to the really quite useless. On the former’s front, one might choose to classify their music by genres – rock, pop, classical and folk,…

EP: Tristram – Someone Told Me a Poem

Tristram’s new EP, Someone Told Me a Poem, is an unfeasibly beautiful toolkit for dealing with the commonplace mundanities of modern life, replete with lulling laments about stolen property, ice tea and zombies. The title track is an enigma of…