Indie
Track: C Duncan – Say
Last time we heard from C Duncan, it was when our interest was peeked when we heard his track ‘For’. Now the Glasgow song-songwriter is back with a new single, ‘Say’ taken from his forthcoming debut album, due out this Summer. As with its predecessor, it was lovingly recorded at home by C Duncan, who …
Live Review: Mark Lanegan Band – Trades Club, Hebden Bridge 24.01.2015
One word immediately springs to mind battling through the crush of bodies towards the stage tonight: oversold. The Trades Club is heaving to capacity on this Saturday night of the Heavenly Records weekend and the suspicion is that the huge demand for entrance has somehow overwhelmed the usually strict, but fair, security measures. I mark …
Track: Stornaway – The Road You Didn’t Take
Oxford indie folk band Stornoway are back with a third, as yet untitled album, due out on April 13th. Searching for new ideas and with the lyrical cupboard (that is, his notebook) bare, songwriter and frontman Dr. Brian Briggsford took his family and upped sticks for the Gower Pennisula in Wales, perhaps (and I’m relying …
Album Review: The Charlatans – Modern Nature
The Charlatans are an ageing Indie Holy Cow, the kind of band whose back catalogue xfm love to (very) selectively mine when they’re not heavily rotating the execrable Kasabian and the fading Kings of Leon. There are legions of fans, they’ve been around for over 25 years, and they have produced some decent tunes like ‘Just When You’re Thinking Things …
Track: Soak – Sea Creatures
We’ve written about teenage Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson before in glowing terms, but upon listening to her new single, ‘Sea Creatures’, which drops on March 16th via Rough Trade, she’s upped her game again in producing a song which is startling in its beauty and astonishing in its lyrical wordplay. And trust us, there’s no …
Live: J Mascis – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 17.1.15
With barely a glimpse to the crowd J.Mascis, founder member of Dinosaur Jr., takes to the stage at the Brudenell in front of a capacity sold out crowd. J. is known to be a man of few words and much prefers to let his music do the talking and with only the briefest of greetings …
New Music: Altadore – Bar Lights
It feels like a long time since Winter 2012’s ‘Golden Hills’, but it has been worth the wait: ‘Bar Lights’ is one hell of a start to 2015 for Altadore. You all know EXACTLY what it’s like. You’ve found a band that you love to pieces, you’ve metaphorically worn away the grooves on the vinyl listening …
Track: Twilight Sad – I could give you all that you don’t want, plus tour dates
Taken from their latest, fourth album Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants To Leave, is the new single from Scottish grunge / shoe gazers The Twilight Sad. ‘I Could Give You All That You Don’t Want’ was one of the stand out tracks on the record anyway, and it drops on February 9th …
Album Review: Sumner – Sumner
Two years ago, there or there abouts Kristina Sarkisova arrived in London, via Moscow and Valencia with one suitcase and a guitar. Her intention, beyond seeing out the little money she had for a couple of months, was to give the ‘music thing’ a try. If she didn’t get a sign that it was worth …
News: Desperate Journalist launch debut LP.
Maybe it’s the 12 string Rickenbacker; maybe it’s the soaring heartfelt vocals, the slick drumming, or the subtle basslines. Whatever it is Desperate Journalist have it all, the beauty, the intensity, and the majesty, that turns good British indie music into Great British indie music. Their sound will fall easily on the ears of fans …