Music
Album review: I Am Kloot – Hold Back The Night
It seems to be a great mystery why smug dullards like Elbow are packing out arenas when the infinitely superior Kloot are operating a couple of levels below. This splendid live album provides the answer as the sort of people who love soulless stadium shows would pee their pants faced with John Bramwell’s twisted poetry …
Album Review: Deep Purple – Long Beach 1971
Since being the original form of recorded music, the live album continues to evolve. From the legendary live soul albums of the 60s, to the iconic double live albums released by innumerable rock bands during the 70s, then on to landmark live recordings in the 80s, and finding a new lease of life via MTV’s …
Track: Lauren Desberg – He Loves and She Loves
Seems a bit of a cheek to have this, the new track from 23 year old Los Angeles singer Lauren Desberg, given that it was written by George Gershwin for his 1927 musical ‘Funny Face’. A Graduate of Berklee where she won the ASCAP Foundation’s Leiber and Stoller Music Award, Lauren Desberg has been gaining …
Track: Choir of Young Believers – Face Melting
Its taken some time, three years to be accurate, but at last Choir of Young Believers aka Copenhagen based Jannis Noya Makrigiannis, plus assorted friends, who are back with a flurry of activity. ‘Face Melting’ comes from a forthcoming album, due later on in the year via Ghostly International, and he’s also heading out for …
Album Review: 10,000 Maniacs – Twice Told Tales
‘In my Tribe’, the third album by Jamestown, New York band 10000 Maniacs released in 1987 remains in my top 50 albums of all time. The Wishing chair, their second album is in my top 100 and the MTV Unplugged sessions from 1993 still makes me shudder slightly…for the right reasons. So imagine my joy …
A beginners’ guide to Peter Gabriel
From progressive rock pioneer, to art rocker, to world music conduit, to pop star, to multi-media explorer, Peter Gabriel has covered a tremendous amount of ground in his four and a half decades in the music industry, ensuring him an unarguable place among popular music’s icons. Starting as frontman for Genesis, from 1969 onwards he …
Track: Fehm – Eyes Full
Leeds based band Fehm have unleashed new track ‘Eyes Full’ from their EP ‘Animal Skin’ following on from the epic, ‘Hand To Mouth’ Fehm clearly have a love of 70’s goth punk, but that only fuels the songs with a dark brooding ferocity. ‘Eyes Full’ starts off with a razor sharp bassline that pins …
Not Forgotten – Mull Historical Society – Loss
I’ve always found it difficult to put any kind of tag on Loss. Just what type of music is it? It has elements of self-produced indie, but it’s far too well produced for it to be classed as lo-fi. It has moments of pure pop genius, but I would hold back on pigeon-holing it as …
Track: Everything Everything – Regret, plus November tour dates
Ahead of their new album ‘Get to Heaven’, Everything Everything have announced that ‘Regret’ will be the second single taken from it, the follow up to the brilliant and totally infectious ‘Distant Past’. The album, produced by Stuart Price (The Killers, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Madonna) sees the band move into ever more ambitious …
Track: Danny Darko – My Favourite ft Jova Radevska
Taken from his upcoming album ‘Sensations’ comes a new single from DJ and producer Danny Darko. He’s proved over the last few years that he’s adept across a whole range of electronic styles, from being known as the Starchaser producer who’s ‘Love will set you free’ hit the UK and MTV Dance charts, to receiving …