The long awaited new album from Damien Rice, My Favourite Faded Fantasy, will be released globally this autumn (3rd November in the UK & Ireland). The new record, produced by Rick Rubin and Rice himself, is Rice’s first collection of material in eight…
Brothers Joe and Dave Dunwell alongside cousins Jonny Lamb and Rob Clayton – aka The Dunwells – are attempting to ditch the ‘Americana’ tag of previous releases and if Show Me Emotion is anything to go by then this new…
Menace Beach – “Tennis Court” from stereogum on Vimeo. You wait ages for a great song about a tennis court, then two come along in a relatively short space of time. In truth, we’d never even thought there might be…
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/150623685″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] It is enough, actually, say Canadian four-piece Barr Brothers. Over a dreamily ululating bed of marimba, dulcimer, harp and banjo, ‘Love Ain’t Enough’ lets go of cynicism to see love under every sofa…
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/165657029″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Long-established in the Bears Den repertoire, ‘The Clouds Above Pompeii’ is a splendid, stirring piece of perfection from a band whose debut album Islands (out 20th October) has spent rather a lot of time…
You could be forgiven for having forgotten about this band. Avi Buffalo’s wonderful and summery debut hit like an early decade bullet to the senses. It wasn’t just the sound and how good the songs were, but the potential the…