There is something deceptively and very definitely different about Just Handshakes. Never has a trademark sound been more understated than Clara Patrick’s candy floss-sweet vocals. It seems counterintuitive that such an innocent and ingenuous sound should have the heft to…
#80 She & Him – I Could’ve Been Your Girl
Not that you should need any extra incentive to take in anything and everything that She & Him do, but their latest video is perhaps most notable for being Zooey Deschanel’s directorial debut. She told her HelloGiggles website: “After seven…
News | Laura Marling Secret Cinema event announced
A link-up between Laura Marling and Secret Cinema – described as an “immersive live music experience” – has been announced for June. Details are thin on the ground, what with it being a secret and all, but eight dates have…
Album | She & Him – Volume 3
We’re guessing it wasn’t a long meeting between M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel before they settled on the title Volume 3 for this, their, uhm, third collection of 60s-tinged pop. But it wasn’t just the title that was inevitable about…
#79 Ane Brun – This Voice 2013
Ane Brun will next week release her career retrospective Songs 2003-2013 and is marking the occasion with a re-recording of ‘This Voice’, which originally appeared on her 2005 record A Temporary Dive. The once gentle song has been reimagined as…
Stream | Georgia Ruth’s debut album Week of Pines
Welsh harpist Georgia Ruth this week releases her highly-anticipated debut album Week of Pines and we’re delighted to be able to offer a full stream of the record right here. The Aberystwyth artist has developed a distinctive picking style which…