CocoRosie was only ever meant to be a project that existed solely in their own circle of friends but, about a decade on from their debut album, La Maison De Mon Rêve, they keep coming back for more. Since that…
#81 Beck Lanehart – Last Man Down
If anybody’s been watching Nashville (which is mainly worth sticking with for the music – or at least most of the music) then Beck Lanehart’s ‘Last Man Down’ is exactly the kind of thing you might expect one of the…
Album | Just Handshakes – Say It
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…