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…
With this album created from stories and poems penned during a grand road trip across the United States, Caroline Rose has not held back in terms of her views on contemporary America she gathered along the way. The songs of…
“Even George Clooney gets lonely,” sing This Frontier Needs Heroes on their latest release, a sentiment which is either reassuring or desperately sad depending on your perspective. If it does seem a touch ambiguous, then the line: “All the money…