You wouldn’t guess from the uplifting, rhythmic hook of this album’s title track ‘We The Common (For Valerie Bolden)’ that it has sombre roots: Valerie Bolden is serving a life sentence in California State Prison, and Thao Nguyen met her…
Album | Ron Sexsmith – Forever Endeavour
Forever Endeavour is the thirteenth album from a man now in his fiftieth year. It is a collection of songs that in some ways seems as comfortingly familiar as the tousled mop in the picture on the cover. The velvety…
Album | I Am Kloot – Let It All In
Having achieved their greatest commercial success to date – not to mention a Mercury Prize nomination – with fifth album Sky At Night, I Am Kloot understandably do not stray too far from that formula on their sixth. Recorded once…
Album | Veronica Falls – Waiting For Something To Happen
It’s only been just over a year since Veronica Falls released their infectious and delightful self-titled debut but nonetheless they’ve been quick to record a follow-up. Waiting For Something To Happen, on the surface, keeps hold of the same aesthetic…
Album | Ólöf Arnalds – Sudden Elevation
Who is Ólöf Arnalds? Why isn’t she regarded in awe by all with ears? Is the world so deaf to greatness that an artist of this calibre, this breathtaking brilliance, is confined to ‘specialist’ radio stations and name-checks in the…
News | HMV employee live-tweets mass firing
An HMV employee took to the company’s official twitter account today to live-tweet the HR process that s/he claimed resulted in 60 people being ‘fired’.
See the story unfold here.