Kicking off like a primary school orchestra warming up for a show, ‘A Midsummer Evening’ is a heart-filling summer song with a sting of fire in its tail. The choral chanting, discordant electronic instrumentation and strange imagining of a land…
Perhaps appropriately for someone who’s just landed in the UK, the first thing Simone Felice does when I ask how he’s doing is mention the weather. “I’m just generally glad to be alive and glad it’s spring at last,” the…
Listening to Broken Records Toska, the Edinburgh based bands first release in four years, it strikes me that there are two defined (though not necessarily mutually exclusive) routes available when putting together an EP. The first option is to release…
Fates by Johanna Warren Whether we realise it or not, most of us already know the voice of Johanna Warren – whether it be from her backing vocals on Andrea Tomasi’s recent record (and their subsequent US tour together), or…
Former Low Anthem front-woman and ex-NASA researcher Jocie Adams has returned in typically unorthodox style with her first record in her shiny new group Arc Iris. While hearing Adams’ voice out front might take a little getting used to, little…
Liz Green creates awesome, disturbing, strange worlds in her own particular, timeless way. She twists and flips her way through eccentrically created vistas, breathing life into strange individuals and creating music that is both fascinating and astonishingly good. Her second…