Music
Album Review: The Train Set – Never California
In my day,that day being back in the late 80s and early 90s, the home made compilation cassette was the calling card of the young man about town. From subtle messages contained within for potential partners, to an assert action to a new acquaintance that your musical taste marked you out as a person it …
Album Review: This Other Kingdom – Telescopic
Dublin Neo-Psych band This Other Kingdomwill release their debut album ‘Telescopic’ in the UK on August 28th. The album was released in Ireland in April 2015 and charted in the top 10 on iTunes and also featured prominently in the Irish chart. The UK version is set for release on Good Vibrations Records and will …
Tracks: Library Voices – Oh Donna, plus new album details
There was a chance that Canadian indie rockers Library Voices forthcoming third album, Lovish, might never have seen the light of day. A combination of endless touring, exhaustion, and a serious attack in the street on singer/guitarist Carl Johnson which left him with blood pooling on the front of his brain, a severe concussion, an …
Track: Fine Print – Really
Uk duo Fine Print’s debut self-titled EP is out today. The pair, who mix up elements of jazz, soul and electronics have already found favour with previous singles taken from the EP, ‘About You, ‘Can’t Lie’, and ‘Tell Me’. That leaves only Really that’s new, and you can listen to that now. More upbeat than …
New Music: Adir L.C. – New City
Adir L.C. seemingly cut his indie rock teeth in the Glen Rock< new Jersey basements that bred the likes of Titus Andronicus and Real Estate. However, in his new album Oceanside Cities, its tales from his globetrotting nature that fuels the material, as evidenced by the fact it was written in multiple cities and recorded ...
Album Review: Beach House – Depression Cherry
Did you ever hear an album that feels like an emotional punch in the gut? Something that squeezes your innards until you want to collapse into a puddle of overwrought, bawling mess on the floor? Sure you have. Nick Drake, Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley, and The Zombies have all done it to me in the …
Not Forgotten – Cud – Showbiz
After years of incrementally increasing success achieved by a combination of talent as opposed to any grand career plan, Cud reached their commercial and creative apogee with 1992’s utterly wonderful Asquarius. Their first album for major label A&M, Asquarius should have been the album that lodged them permanently into the public’s consciousness, and while it …
Live Review: Tramlines 2015: Main Stage – 24.7.15 including Charlatans gallery
Tramlines 2015 style kicked off on Friday 24th July this year, and we took a stroll down to the new Main Stage, now situated in Ponderosa Park, a little out of the centre and away from its home of the last six years, Devonshire Green. As it was, the ten minute stroll from the city …