Three years on from her critically acclaimed debut Pen Voyage Chapter One: Singing For Change, Lánre is ready with a new EP. Single ‘Home’ is the title track, and sounds worth the wait. The song combines her experiences from the…
#430 Lánre – Home
Album | Gruff Rhys- American Interior
Gruff Rhys doesn’t like doing things by halves. This, his fourth (and latest) solo album, comes as part of a trifecta, encompassing a book and film, both to be released in the not too distant future. American Interior is a…
#429 Less Is More – Maybe We’ll Die
‘Maybe We’ll Die’ is taken from the upcoming album Amid The Flowers from Michigan duo Jane Finkel and Brian Spencer, AKA Less Is More. To celebrate the album’s release they’re planning a nationwide tour of the US with a slight…
Album | The Delines – Colfax
Three years ago, the progression of Willy Vlautin’s songwriting reached its logical conclusion with the ambitious ‘musical novel’ The High Country, a concept album in which Vlautin sought to combine his increasingly successful literary career with his first love, music.…
#428 The Point – Lost Your Chance
Out of Brooklyn come duo The Point, whose track ‘Lost Your Chance’ is a lovely, laid-back slice of electro pop. Simple but subtly different, Michael O’Neill and Sammy Tunis have created a song which feels almost slight at the start but by…
#427 Peter Matthew Bauer – Philadelphia Raga
Wow, talk about slow build. This glorious track from Peter Matthew Bauer starts from nothing and grows very much at its own pace into a perfect slice of unapologetic and grimy folk pop. Bauer used to be in The Walkmen,…