Woods has consistently made good albums for a while now, with short gaps between each album. There’s no change to that formula here either. The shimmering and shuffling, at once delicate and acoustic and the next moment electric twanging and…
Some of the Felice Brothers most popular songs are the raucous numbers like ‘Run Chicken Run’, but there’s no more beautiful moment on their 2009 album Yonder Is The Clock than ‘Katie Dear’. Rather than tell you about it we’ll…
There’s something inherently paradoxical about the ubiquity of Elbow’s mammoth hit ‘One day like this’ – a song about a single, brief moment of life-changing beauty that ended up being, well, everywhere. In fact, I’ve often doubted whether a body…
“I’m not here to be the sufferer, for the fears of all humankind. I’m here to sing and get up in your everything.” So goes the chorus of ‘Shame’, though it could well function as a manifesto for Joan Wasser’s…
Last year, Manchester’s Laurie Hulme introduced Songs For Walter, an idea to tell tales of his late grandfather’s life through music. His Meet Me At The Empire EP was perfectly formed for the job, built around stories of his grandparents’…
Just when it seems that all the really catchy tunes have been written, a new artist comes along with an absolute beauty of an ear worm that dances around your head for days. Step forward Faith Taylor and ‘Foolish Age’…