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Album Review: Tracey Thorn – Songs From ‘The Falling’
My love for Tracey Thorn goes way back. From those early beautifully mellow ballads she did with Everything But The Girl, to the ultra-cool dance tracks such as ‘Missing’. and ‘Walking Wounded’. The thing that has always astonished me about her, is her ability to portray so much raw emotion in her vocals, without even …
Track: Laura Doggett – Into the Glass (full Spector mix)
Its probably the remarkable voice of Bath singer-songwriter Laura Doggett thats bringing her to the attention of many – not least Years & Years, who she supported recently at their London Heaven dates, and has earned her places at a handful of summer festivals including The Great Escape in May, Dot to Dot Festival in …
Album Review: Roisin Murphy – Hairless Toys
Roisin Murphy will release her third solo album ‘Hairless Toys’ on May 12th, but after nearly eight years since her second album “Overpowered’ reached number twenty in the UK album charts I’m guessing a few of you may be wondering who Roisin is; Firstly. it’s pronounced Rosheen, like machine, not Roison, like poison or Wassin’ …
Track: Florence and the Machine “St. Jude” and “Ship to Wreck”
As Florence Welch (and her Machine) prepares for Glastonbury greatness, she has also been tantalising her audience with nuggets of her new, third album “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful”. First we had “What Kind of Man” which has a slow, typically-Florence ethereal build up, but after a minute kicks in with the fiercer ‘rock’ …
Track: Hannah Trigwell – The Ocean
Back with a new original, Hannah Trigwell has just released an acoustic offering of ‘The Ocean’ which will be released in full at some point soon. What’s on offer here is a beautiful construction of the uses of melody exacted through three guitars and Hannahs vocals. Its an emotional song that draws you in and …
EP: Against The Current – ‘Gravity’
With an ability to make each release their best yet, ‘Gravity’ presents and highlights a great deal of growth from the band in terms of maturity and musical understanding. Most important of all is that they know how to have fun doing what they love. Going with the title of the EP, it’s a release …
See: Alex G – ‘Proof’ Music Video
Continuing with the idea of releasing a music video for every track from the debut album, Alex G has just released the video for ‘Proof’. What makes this one stand out is that it’s performed live from one take, although visually edited together from different takes, the audio represents the song in the best way …
See: Madonna releases new video, “Living For Love”
24 hours after been the first superstar to use Snap Channel, (on Snapchat Discover), to premiere her latest video, Madonna has now made it available to all via Vevo. Immediately after posting the video on Snapchat it became the number one trending topic on Facebook, leading Forbes news agency to claim “Even after all these …
Album Review: Meghan Trainor – ‘Title’
Let’s get this out of the way, regardless of the popularity generated by her debut single ‘All About That Bass’ and even though I’ll admit that it was a catchy song, it made me wonder what the debut album would be like and if it would be an album made up of the same songs …
From an old record box: Prefab Sprout – Life Of Surprises
I’m doing this the wrong way ’round, mainly because that’s how this record was purchased. I was only really interested in the b-side of catalogue number SK 63. ‘The King Of Rock ‘N’ Roll’ is the only Prefab Sprout I can remember being able to stand – and nothing has changed over the years. I’ve a new …