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Track: Baby in Vain – “Worthwhile” + UK tour dates
Danish punk trio Baby In Vain are set to return to the UK this week with a string of dates, including support slots for The Wytches. In addition to the return to these shores, the band have just dropped latest track “Worthwhile”. Penned by vocal and guitarist, Andrea, the track deals with her growing feelings …
See: Vulgarians release new video for “Wet Juice”, plus Tour dates
Hull post-punk outfit Vulgarians wagon has picked up momentum and doesn’t look like its set to stop rumbling until they’ve brought the intensity of their fuzzed out, reverb rich noise to every inch of the UK. Their live set, along with leaked demos, “Autocratic” and “Naturally Nothing” started attaracting attention earlier in the year, and …
Not Forgotten: Mansun – Attack of the Grey Lantern
Released at a time when any UK four piece with guitars was being mercilessly marketed as Britpop and ‘indie’, Mansun’s Attack of the Grey Lantern is an album that succeeded, not because, but despite, the hyperbole around it. Schizophrenic image problems or not, Mansun had spent the months prior to the release of their debut …
Album Review: Richard Thompson – Still
Good grief. I’ve had this album forever and I’ve been totally unprofessional and sat on it, and sat on it, and sat on it. Why? Well firstly, because I had been hoping that it would be as good as ‘Semi-Detached Mock Tudor’, which is the best of the, er, two Richard Thompson albums that I own. …
Film Review: M.A. Littler – ‘Lost Coast’
We have just spent an escapist, week long family holiday at Corcreggan Mill in Dunfanaghy, courtesy of the ubiquitous host and raconteur, Brendan Rohan. There are few better antidotes for “civilisation”, Corcreggan is a magical destination, one which Brendan describes in his local walking guide as follows, “The hollow in which Corcreggan Mill is situated is said …
Album Review: The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol – ‘Masters Of The Mole Hill’
‘Masters of the Mole Hill‘ is the 9th LP by TBWNIAS – The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol, perhaps Cana-duh’s best kept secret. Last year’s ‘Pathfinder’ opus, introduced to the baying UK pack by Cardinal Fuzz, rightly left the uninitiated salivating for more – ‘Masters of the Mole Hill’ consummates that fevered tryst. ‘Masters of the …
See: Joe Jackson reveals Spring 2016 European tour dates
It’s amazing how some artists stay with you over the course of your life. In the days before iPads and things and 24 hour children’s programmes, as children we used to end up sometimes doing quiet things, like reading and drawing – on paper, with pencils and everything. In the kitchen my mother would have …
Obituary: Carey Lander – Paradoxically Modest and Truly Brilliant (1982 -2015)
Some musicians surprise fans by not knowing how to deal with appreciation and disarm reviewers by willing to absorb criticism of their music. Carey Lander, the keyboard player with Glaswegian indie pop band Camera Obscura from 2001 until her death in October 2015, did both. Erudite and demure offstage but ironically confident in projecting her …
Track: Bring me the Horizon – True Friends
“True friends stab you in the front,” according to Sheffield five Bring me the Horizon’s Oli Sykes on their new single True Friends, taken from their recent That’s the Spirit’ album. Not that it matters to the band, who have become one of the biggest bands in the World, with a Top 2 album, dominate …
Album Review: Deerhunter – Fading Frontier
Since 2005, Bradford Cox and the Deerhunter boys have consistently released interesting and unique music. Whilst essentially they would fit into the indie/rock department of your local record store (if such a thing still exists) they have constantly shifted through genres like new outfits. Throughout their career they have moved through rock, phsyc, ambient, and …