Benjamin Clementine has been causing a stir since his surprise appearance on Jools Holland last year, and this week delivered his first record, the Cornerstone EP. The Paris-based London export will be following up the release with a show at…
Who’s ready for some harmonies and banjos? Oxford’s Samuel Zasada are happy to oblige with this track ‘Lifelessly’, taken from their new EP Winter’s End. With urgent, driving banjo riffs and meaty harmonies, the band very much fit the modern…
For your first listen to the long-awaited second album from this Californian group, I seriously suggest you make time, plug in some seriously good speakers and allow yourself to just listen. In other words, do not ‘make do’ with some…
Samantha Crain’s new album, out today in the UK on Full Time Hobby, is called Kid Face. This is because, Crain explains, she is regularly mistaken for a 16-year-old. “It gives me a great insight into people’s character and plenty…
It’s just beautiful, isn’t it? Sometimes the purest songs come from an unlikely source. This track, taken from French electronica duo Air’s 1998 debut album Moon Safari, came after the equally excellent but wildly different ‘Sexy Boy’ and ‘Kelly Watch…
Listening to Guided By Voices is a bit like going down a very deep mine. Lead singer Robert Pollard has well over 1,600 songs under his name and usually releases at least three albums a year… It’s a frightening prospect…