Jenny Hval is a woman of radical contrasts and disconcerting juxtapositions. Physically small, delicate and bird-like, her vocal suggests a much bigger set of lungs while her music explores the relationship between the organic and the man-made. Tonight, after a…
Album | Hospitality – Hospitality
For an album that is about the trials of young adulthood – struggles in love, dead-end jobs, and finding yourself a long way form home – Hospitality’s self-titled debut is remarkably cheery. Fantastically cheery in fact. We defy you not…
Album | Keaton Henson – Dear…
“Keaton Henson spends his time alone, writing songs and sometimes drawing, he doesn’t like to talk about himself,” so says his website. Anxiety can eat away at the soul, burning the eyes into hollow caverns and leaving one nailed into…
Live | Louise & the Pins @ St.Pancras Church: 4th April 2012
Theres something in Louise Hull’s voice that the world has been missing, since, well…. since forever really: and it’s something I think we should all be grateful to now have. We should get one thing straight beforehand though: alongside Louise, there…
Live | Other Lives @ Village Underground
There’s nothing like a live performance to make it feel like you’ve missed something. Last time this reviewer saw Other Lives, they were on a small stage, in a sweatbox tent at a woodland festival. A few months down the…
Download | Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros return with ‘Man on Fire’
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros will return next month with sophomore album Here, the follow-up to the triumphant Up From Below, and they’re previewing it by offering opening track ‘Man On Fire’ as a free download. The new album…