I’ve been looking forward to Los Campesinos!’s fifth album NO BLUES for absolutely ages. The same will be true for a lot of 20-somethings, for whom LC! have been a bit of a soundtrack band since they first emerged as…
The Staves are on tour at the moment, which is easily excuse enough for us to bang on about how amazing they are all over again. This session recording of ‘Mexico’ – on a beach and then, when the rain…
Well this is a bit bloody lovely, isn’t it? Mutual Benefit is the project of Jordan Lee, who got a bunch of friends to help him record his debut album, Love’s Crushing Diamond. It’s a project that has gathered a…
Earlier this year Richard Hawley caused something of a kerfuffle when he revealed he had turned down a slot at Glastonbury because the famous festival had become “meaningless”. For devotees of the Worthy Farm experience this was tantamount to heresy,…
Husband and wife duo Davy & Amelia are expecting a baby. A baby girl. And they’re planning to call her Norah June. Before she’s even born, she’s got a song and an EP named after, but really what she has…
Andrea Tomasi’s debut album, Hurricane Dream, is incredibly beautiful, and instantly comforting on dark autumn days. Beginning with a campfire guitar, the instrumental opening feels self-assured. It was recorded outside, in the woods: crickets chirping away create a natural space…