Blending sweet harmonies and a rich blend of instruments, London-based alt-folk trio Thickets make a fairly wonderful noise. Rebecca (autoharp), Allanah (cello) and Kieran (drums) come together to make something that sounds fresh and exciting, and something you can hear…
It’s not the fact that Hayley Reardon has released the Wayfindings EP at the age of 17 that is remarkable – it’s more the fact that this seven-track collection of songs is her second record after 2012’s Where The Artists…
I am by no means an important person; but I don’t like to be kept waiting. I have long since reconciled myself to the fact that coolness is beyond my grasp – but it has always eluded me, from a…
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…