The Summer Series at Somerset House is back for 2013 with an altogether more FFS-friendly line-up. Eleven open-air concerts will be held during July in the building’s stunning courtyard, a use which beats their winter ice rink hands down, in…
Let me get the negative out of the way right off the bat: this was a gig to forget. And I think no-one would like to forget it more than Lissie. It was unprofessional and downright disappointing. If that’s enough…
Thea Gilmore’s return, following the birth of her second child, brings with it a 14th studio album in as many years which finds her on top of her game. Gilmore herself admits the time she took away from music helped…
I Said Yes are a multi-instrumental five-piece from all over the UK, and the EP that ‘Follow On’ is taken from has been four years in the making. Half a decade on from our first encounter with I Said Yes, their…
Stand-out track from Hval’s 2011 album, Viscera, ‘Blood Flight’ is a pulsing, menacing meditation on the body and its senses. Throughout, the vocal alternates between an anguished spoken word tone and freewheeling singing voice, building to a neurotic climax two-thirds…
Few things excite all of us quite so much as the idea of a road trip across the United States, which is exactly what Caroline Rose took before writing her debut album America Religious – a record filled with characters…