I was hesitant about a 10-piece folk band in small venue due to the potential of instruments muddling and sounding chaotic, but found myself incredibly impressed with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ performance 2016 at the Sinclair in Cambridge,…
Matthew & the Atlas are ready to return with their fine new record Temple, which is due out on April 22 via Communion. Written in his home studio in Farnborough but recorded in East Nashville with electronic folk duo Foreign…
Danny Green’s songwriter project, Laish, are performing a rare seven-piece band launch show at London’s excellent Sebright Arms on 21st April to celebrate the release of an EP we described as “13 minutes of perfection“. Support comes from the honey-voiced…
The first thing that strikes you is Sam Jordan’s incredible voice. We could waste time comparing his rich baritone with some other outstanding crooners, but we’re wagering that if we wait a little while he’ll become a reference point himself.…
“The next song is a sad one… as is the rest of the set”. Drinking, drinking with people you hate, relationship breakups and mental illness. It’s fair to say the subject matter of John Joseph Brill is not the cheeriest.…
Parquet Courts are a band you need in your life. The band signing to Rough Trade last year was both obvious and intriguing. The mostly bizarre, almost completely instrumental EP/album ‘Mona stic Living’ from late last year was anything if a…