The Servants, Klak Tik’s second full-length release, is an album of tensions. Begun during a trip the band took to a remote part of Wales – including sessions in a chapel and underneath Parys Mountain – and finished back in…
Album | Olafur Arnalds – For Now I Am Winter
The third album of Icelandic musician and producer Olafur Arnalds, For Now I am Winter, is intricately woven from repeating piano rhythms, delicate strings and loops to create a haunting and unsettling effect. From the opening track ‘Sudden Throw’ it…
#3 Anna Lena & The Orchids – View Of My Sanity
‘View Of My Sanity’, the lead track from Anna Lena & The Orchids’ debut EP, is a hell of a way for the Norwegian singer-songwriter to announce herself on to the scene. The mix of drama and beauty – “He’s blocking the…
EP | Little Green Cars – Harper Lee
The keys are in the ignition and the engine is revving: Little Green Cars are on their way. They are a five-piece band from Dublin who made it onto the BBC Sound of 2013 shortlist – as well as the…
#2 Ellen & The Escapades – This Ace I’ve Burned
One of the ways you knew Ellen & The Escapades’ debut album All The Crooked Scenes was so strong is that they could have released virtually any of its 12 songs as singles. Instead they’ve restricted themselves to the more…
EP | Worry Dolls – Worry Dolls
Like fish without chips or Wallace without Gromit, when listening to Worry Dolls its hard to imagine what Rosie or Zoe might have sounded like as the two solo artists who met at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and…