Followers of the New Bands Panel will be familiar with Cornwall-based experimentalist Minko and her Songs Series. Her latest EP, Songs 5-8 (Creature), is out now and takes its name from this track. A little moodier and broodier than some…
Landshapes (formerly Lulu and the Lampshades) are a foursome most well-known for playing on cups in their kitchen. They are raucously fun to see live, playing a dizzying array of instruments (especially percussive ones), and Rambutan is rhythmically and musically…
Whilst writing The Violence, last year’s dazzling musical chronicle of the Essex witch-hunts, Darren Hayman researched and adapted a repertoire of folk songs from the civil war period. On Bugbears he has kitted them out and sent them to march,…
Despite having its tune hijacked by the rubbish Hugh Grant film Music & Lyrics, we still love this Mystery Jets tune with an appearance from our Laura Marling. Mystery Jets – Young Love (Featuring Laura Marling) from Will Paris on…
For a while a decade or so ago it seemed that all indie pop worth listening to came from Scotland – and none was more worth listening to than that produced by Aberfeldy. ‘Love Is An Arrow’ was the song…
Back in 2010 when we first came across Mathew Gray, our New Bands Panel attempted gamely not to mention Bob Dylan too often as they described what they loved about the Lancashire singer-songwriter. Now Gray’s sound has been fleshed out…