Maz Totterdell is like a ray of sunshine in your record collection. Rather than choosing the route of teenage angst, this precocious 15 year old reminds us that it wasn’t ALL rubbish being young, and her gentle reflections on the bumpy road…
News | Levellers announce new album
Levellers have announced the arrival of a new album: “Static on the Airwaves”, due for release on 25th June 2012. I think it would be a slight understatement to say that this has been a hotly anticipated album. From their…
Interview | Introducing…Paul Thomas Saunders
With recent EP Descartes Highlands, Paul Thomas Saunders has revealed a gift for transmuting melancholia into a kind of subdued euphoria. Named after an area on the nearside of the moon, the EP is a collection of sonic lunarscapes to…
Interview | The other-worldly influences of The Magnetic North
When a long-dead woman called Betty Corrigall comes to you and tells you to make an album about your shared home of Orkney it’s a difficult thing to ignore. When this happened to Erland Cooper he didn’t ignore it, but…
EP | Matt Norris & The Moon – The Kingdom EP
Everything about Matt Norris & The Moon’s music makes sense to me: modern, Mumford-esque arrangements with Nizlopi vocals and tunes that sound rooty and traditional, like Wheeler Street. There are flutes, trumpets, acoustic guitars – if I listen hard enough…
Live | We Came, We Saw, We Got Lost – 36 hours at The Great Escape
It’s an uncharacteristically beautiful Friday evening as we hot foot it down the A23 to Brighton for the most exciting new music festival of the year, The Great Escape. We may have missed a cracking first couple of days, but…