Indie
Album Review: Passion Pit – Kindred
‘Nineteen-eighty five was a good year’ sing Passion Pit on the opening track of the new album ‘Kindred’. Is it me, or is there an enormous amount of nostalgia at the moment for the decade that fashion forgot? Well if it’s good enough for Swifty, then it’s good enough for me. The track I’m speaking …
Live Review: Hands Off Gretel – Mine, Leeds 23.04.2015
Fast rising grunge band Hands Off Gretel are in Leeds tonight to play Move, Leeds traffic being what it is I arrive slightly late walking in during their song Be Mine. What is immediately apparent is how they sound exactly the same live as they do on record with Lauren Tate’s fierce vocal like razor …
Track: Dinosaur Crush release new single, Noise
Imagine, if you will, what would happen if you put together a scientist, ice cream maker, computer programmer, defence analyst and an (alleged) future United Nations Ambassador (weren’t we all one of those, at one time or another). Well, imagine no further as Reading five piece Dinosaur Crush is actually that exact combination of talents. …
Album Review: Amber Run – 5AM
Amber Run proves to us all that popular music can still be sincere. After releasing a handful of EPs and singles the past few years, we’ve finally been gifted with a full-length album, produced by the magnificent Mike Crossey. 5AM is a moment of clarity in a world full of noise. Whilst you’ll recognise ‘Spark’ …
See: Maiians release video for Sionara
With their two drummers, intricate lines of post rock mashed with electronica and arresting live shows we were always likely to like Maiians, and following their debut Tokyo EP and a string of sold out headline shows, the Oxford five piece are back with a new single, Sionara. Opening with these hazy synth lines, and …
See: Lisbon release ‘I Don’t Know’ Music Video
‘I Don’t Know’ is the latest video from Lisbon and it’s a great track to get you in the mood for summer now that the days are longer and the sun is showing. It’s a brilliantly simple premise for a music video – pelting the band with water balloons that suitably serves the song giving …
See: Love Amongst Ruin release new video for ‘Lose Your Way’
Placebo drummer and charter member Steve Hewitt has had a storied musical career to say the least, and it’s culminated into his newest musical endeavor, Love Amongst Ruin. He’s readying his sophomore release under that name which will be released the 11th of May. “Love Your Way” is the lead single and title track off …
New Music: Cabane release debut single Sangokaku, featuring Bonnie ’Prince’ Billy & Kate Stables
Sangokaku is the perfect title for Cabane’s debut single. In Japanese it translates to ‘sea coral’, believed to hold magical healing properties, which have been completely absorbed into this music. Sangokaku is graceful and haunting. As you listen you find yourself feeling isolated, considering your own loneliness, teetering between the elated and melancholic. But you …
Track: Jenny Hval releases new single ‘Sabbath’, plus UK/EU tour dates
“Sabbath” is the second release from Jenny Hval’s up coming album ‘Apocalypse, Girl’. I’m a bit of a sucker for the stories that sit behind the songs, thankfully Jenny has provided a bit of info – and possibly the quote of the month – about the song… “I think I’ve been writing this song since …
News: Long Division Festival returns to Wakefield 12th – 14th June
Five years in and Long Division festival in Wakefield has become as much a part of the festival season as any of the offerings its big city rival, Leeds, can offer. 80+ bands – three days – eight city centre venues ! It’s a winning formula with an ever impressive line up ranging from the …