If I didn’t know any better, I’d say I Break Horses have been created by a fiendish group of artists simply to confound music critics and disprove our own, limited art. As an explanation, here are the facts about the…
Exclusive | Stream Tuesday from Paper Aeroplanes’ new EP
Paper Aeroplanes have announced the release of a new EP ‘A Comfortable Sleep’ on September 16th. Paper Aeroplanes is the project of Sarah Howells (posessor of one of the loveliest pop voices around – who also sings with Al Lewis)…
Live | Ben Howard @ Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh
During festival season in Edinburgh, anything goes. Oxford students ride stationary exercise bikes, leafleters dressed as Victorian gentlemen heckle passers-by and opera singers cover pop classics for loose change on street corners. Yet only meters beneath the chaos, in a…
Album | Fruit Bats – Tripper
Like a lot of the folk revival album of the last decade, Tripper sounds very 1970s. It’s gentle, toe-tapping pace, its use of twinkling and sweeping major chords and warm pianos, is reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac or Crosby, Stills, Nash…
Album | The Fruit Tree Foundation – First Edition
It’s hard to make a good indie rock album. Harder still if you’re a band of mostly folk musicians plonked in a house together for only five days. And yet, here on this splendid fourteen track album, First Edition, Scottish…
Singles round-up | Lucy Rose, The Lost Cavalry, We Aeronauts, Anja McCloskey
Lucy Rose – Middle of the Bed What a stylishly simple debut single we have here from Lucy Rose. She’s come along way from busking on the streets of London, playing open mic nights, gigging in bars and eventually coming…