‘This place seems nice…’ quips Leisure Society co-frontman Christian Hardy, surveying the audience settling into Winchester Cathedral’s 160m Gothic nave. Before Nick Hemming’s guitar ripples reassuringly into ‘We Were Wasted’, from the band’s debut album The Sleeper. It’s a skeleton…
News | Jeffrey Lewis on UK tour next week
After the release of this album “A Turn In the Dream-Songs” on Rough Trade a couple of weeks ago. New York pro-folk legend Jeffrey Lewis is heading out on tour across the UK. The album was recorded in the UK…
Live | Gruff Rhys & Y Niwl @ Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Amongst the potted palms of the mobile lobby of Gruff Rhys’s Hotel Shampoo, support band Y Niwl emit wave after wave of their own brand of crystalline surf rock. The Peter Gunn-esque ‘Pedwar’ opens the show, followed by the standout Chwech,…
EP | Sarah Blasko – Cinema Songs
If you’re looking for new material from Sarah Blasko, Cinema Songs is not going to help you out. There’s nothing new here at all. Not only are the five tracks all covers – but they were already released, at least…
Album | Jonny Kearney & Lucy Farrell – Kite
More than most kinds of music, folk is good at doing a genre piece. I like Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell’s Kite in the same way many people like a good murder mystery novel or a solid romantic comedy film…
Album | Josh Rouse – Josh Rouse & The Long Vacations
Josh Rouse has always been a man whose music was of a particular place – if not necessarily of one particular place. Early albums like Dressed Up Like Nebraska and Home spoke of the American mid-west where he was born.…