Indie
Live Review: The Lightning Seeds/ Badly Drawn Boy – Town Hall, Birmingham 10.11.22
The legendary Lightning Seeds returned to Birmingham this week bringing their latest tour to the beautiful Town Hall in the centre of Birmingham, surrounded by the bustling German Christmas Market. Arriving to the venue ahead of the scheduled door opening times I could see people filing into the Town Hall so I walked it and …
Live Review: Crawlers / Uninvited – O2 Academy, Sheffield 09.11.2022
By Sian Connolly With a late start to the show, nothing was stopping this crowd from bringing the energy. Eagerly waiting for the crawlers to emerge, the sold-out venue, o2 Academy Sheffield, welcomed to the stage Glasgow band Uninvited. The indie/alt group consisting of guitarist/vocalist Gillian Dhlakama, bassist/vocalist Taylor Ray, lead guitarist Bex Young and …
Track: Jemma Freeman And The Cosmic Something – Nobody Ever
Jemma Freeman and The Cosmic Something have released their new single ‘Nobody Ever’ taken from their new album ‘Miffed’ due on the 25th of November via Trapped Animal Records. With a soundtrack that matches its melancholic lyrics, Jemma says that the track is: “a break up song that I wrote before I knew I was in the middle of a break up. I often struggle to recognise …
Track: Emily Victoria Shares New Track & Video ‘Human Heart’
‘Humming Heart’ is a glorious slide of indie-pop with an existential question at its core.
Review: Laura Jean’s ‘Amateurs’ Is A Commentary On The Vagaries Of Fame & Fortune
I was at the Oxford Art Factory when Laura Jean launched her album, ‘Devotion‘ in 2018. At that concert, Laura Jean brought her sister on stage to dance when she sang ‘Girls On The TV’. It was an incredibly moving experience, especially given the subject matter of that song. It is one of those moments …
Track: Hatchie takes a ‘Nosedive’ into a darker, frenetic world as new US and Australian tour dates are announced.
Brisbane’s Harriette Pilbeam – as Hatchie – has just unveiled a new, darker slice of shoegaze dream pop in new track ‘Nosedive’, in the midst of her US tour. Out through label Secretly Canadian, ‘Nosedive’ pulls on a hoodie and pogoes with a degree of gothic-fringed menace and aggression – stabbing fragmented instrumentation drives through …
Track: Sand Brothers unveil a delicious serving of antipodean indie pop in ‘Adelaide’, ahead of new album ‘Too Much Sky’.
Sand Brothers have just released a jangling, sparkling slice of antipodean summer with their single ‘Adelaide’. Containing a genetic core that tips its cork-ringed Akubra hat at bands like The Go-Betweens and The Chills, with an added pure pop sixties-inflected guitar shimmer, ‘Adelaide’ positively glistens and trembles with a twelve-string brilliance and mountainous melodies. The …
EP Review: Wish unveil the jangling, atmospheric instrumental EP ‘Becoming’ and announces launch date.
I always say that the greatest challenge for instrumental music is to convey thoughts and feelings without words, and in the EP ‘Becoming’ by Naarm/Melbourne outfit Wish, they have done just that. A core instrumentation of just guitars , bass and drums delivers something quiet raw and evocative. Wish is essentially the solo work of …
Live Review: The Wannadies – Islington Assembly Hall, London 03.11.2022
The 1990s felt like the Swedish decade. Scandinavian style social democracy dominated politics whilst bands like The Cardigans and The Wannadies provided the songs for the CDs we so neatly stacked in all those IKEA shelf units. The Wannadies, led by cheeky, curly-haired scamp Pär Wiksten provided one of the ready assembled, rom-com songs of …