Emily Staveley-Taylor, like all the best people (this writer included), went to university in Manchester. And while she was there she worked in a bar just down the road from her student house in Whalley Range. It might have been…
Wooden Arms released their new single ‘Burial’ on Friday. Inspired bu Edgar Allen Poe, the track flips between sombre lullabies and trip-hop basslines on its way to a climax of noise. It’s quite a thing. As is this rather dark…
Berlin is the unlikely source for this slice of Americana, a dreamy song awash with pedal-steel. Sami Simon, aka Edges, ignores the musical stereotypes of his home city to produce music which feels more at home in a rural setting,…
‘Slow Driving Man’ is taken from M. Ward’s eighth solo album More Rain, released earlier this year. Ward said of this new video, “Here’s a miniature movie directed by Carlos Forster for ‘Slow Driving Man’. It’s about a driver in…
After the Civil Wars’ name proved all too apt and the duo went their separate ways in 2014, we’ve heard Joy Williams change direction with her solo album, released last year. Now it’s John Paul White’s turn but this first…
Zoe Konez is a singer/songwriter who combines lyrical depth with extremely accomplished guitar playing. We described her as “ridiculously talented” after seeing her play at The Great Escape, and she’s been featured on 6Music several times. So, naturally, we were…