Video and Tour News: Man & The Echo share video to ‘Life On An Island’, from new album, ‘Men Of The Moment’
Man & The Echo share the video to new single ‘Life On An Island’, the latest track from their new album, ‘Men of The Moment’ which is out on Still Nil Nil Records on 2nd August. ‘Life On An Island’ is a synth and percussion led vibe about a character who has worked his whole …
News: Bodywash Announce Debut Album and Share New Track ‘Reverie’
Montréal’s Bodywash have announced their debut LP Comforter and you can listen to new single “Reverie” which is out now. Bodywash was formed in 2014 when Chris Steward and Rosie Long Decter met and connected at McGill University. Bonding over a shared affection for shoegaze and dream pop. The band has grown since then and now …
Album Review: Richard Hawley – Further
Sheffield’s Richard Hawley is not only the King of Sheffield (anyone want to argue with that?), he is also the King of Consistency. That might sound like damning with faint praise but it’s not; it’s the greatest of compliments in a world of regular musical mediocrity. Hawley manages to put out albums of the …
Album Review and Interview: Gareth McLaughlin – Into The Ether
The great thing about the Internet age is that artists are now more accessible and searchable. For those artists, the means of production and distribution is now so immediately within their grasp that self-publishing is a real prospect for getting their music out there. Online platforms like Soundcloud and Bandcamp have enabled ‘bedroom troubadours’ to …
Album Review – Gregory Alan Isakov – Evening Machines
Charles Spano’s review of Damien Rice’s “O” on All Music Guide has a fantastic description of the ‘special sauce’ that turns the ordinary into the extraordinary and takes seemingly simply songs and makes them soar: “Rice is master of what critic/ranter Richard Meltzer called “the unknown tongue” – basically the musical equivalent of the “punctum” in …
Live Review: Yo La Tengo – The Church, Leeds – 3rd May 2018
There’s a Riot Going On American indie rockers Yo La Tengo made a welcome return to the UK and Ireland this month for five gigs in support of their 15th release, There’s a Riot Going On, the band’s first full set of originals since 2013’s Fade. Formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984, Yo La …
Track: High Hazels – Days of No One
If you like your music full of gorgeous vocals, shimmering guitars, plenty of reverb and with a sense of navigating the spaces between night and day, good and bad, and old and new then you’re in luck. Sheffield four-piece – High Hazels – are back with new single ‘Days of No One’, their first with …
Album Review: Reverend and the Makers – The Death Of A King
Sheffield’s very own Reverend and the Makers have just returned with their sixth release, and follow up to 2015’s critically acclaimed album – Mirrors – with possibly their most impressive – and expansive – outing so far. ‘The Death Of A King’ was released on 22nd September via Cooking Vinyl and it certainly grabs the …
Album Review: Deer Tick – Volume 1 and Volume 2
Acclaimed roots-rock-americana-country-folk-acoustic-boundary-breakers Deer Tick have released their first new material in four years via Partisan Records. The good news for fans is that they have released not just one, but two new records. This is not a double album either, these are two separate collections of original material (Volume 1 and Volume 2), both recorded …
Album Review: Flyte – The Loved Ones
‘The Loved Ones’ is the long anticipated debut from London four-piece Flyte. It’s been some time in the making – about 3 years in fact. Flyte separately admit that as early as age ten, a career in music was their only ambition. Drummer Jon Supran and bassist Nick Hill met guitarist and lead vocalist Will …