singer-songwriter
See: Nicole Atkins releases video for “Girl you look amazing”
Out tomorrow is “Girl you look amazing”, the first single taken from New Jersey singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins.’ new album Slow Phaser. She’s just finished a run of UK dates which featured Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ Jim Sclavunos on drums, before heading home and supporting the same band on their North American Tour. The …
EP Review: Hannah Trigwell – ‘Rectify’
Hannah Trigwells latest EP ‘Rectify’ has just launched this morning and after the eager anticipation I can easily say that it truly lives up to the hype that has surrounded the release, better than that it has exceeded it. Throughout the EP, there’s the feeling that Hannah has focused on every part of production personally …
Live Review: Hannah Trigwell – The Cockpit, Leeds 18.01.2014
Coming to the end of her first UK Headlining tour, Hannah Trigwell’s penultimate show took place in her hometown of Leeds to great welcome and excitement. The atmosphere for a show on home territory was exactly as you’d expect it to be: a crowd that was filled with friends and fans, both encouraging her on …
Lapland – Metal Lungs
There’s something reassuring and comfortable about the way “Metal Lungs” starts – straight into its rhythm without intro as though it’s a story you were already part-way through, the next track on an album you had already started listening to. That sense is echoed by the insistent strains of repetitive guitars and warm, soft snare …
Clara Engel – A Pound of Flesh (In Particulate Shards)
Look, I don’t like doing this any more than you should like reading it, but I’m writing this from the top deck of the 91 bus and time is tight. Besides which, these comparisons have merit so listen up. This sombre thrum reminds me of Kristin Hersh’s “Hips and Makers”, although it lacks the distracting …
NOT FORGOTTEN – BILLY JOEL – COLD SPRING HARBOR
What the hell is this? A Billy Joel album in this ongoing A to Z of underappreciated albums? When I first started this series of reviews, I never imagined that of all of the acts that come under the letter J in my collection, it would be Billy Joel’s solo debut that would leap out …
New Music: Laura Welsh – Undiscovered
I’d be careful if I were you. Laura Welsh is back amongst us. She’s releasing her new single ‘Undiscovered’ on the Outsiders/Polydor label on October 28th . It’s thought that she was holed up across in America for the recording, produced by Lana Del Rey and Kanye West associate Emile Haynie, and it will feature …
Album Review: Justin Currie – Lower Reaches
It’s an inevitable result of the relentless passage of time that our social circles change as we grow older. As jobs evolve into careers and relationships develop into families, your life shuffles into a new shape and you inevitably lose touch with some of the people that, in your younger days, you felt would always …
Track: Aiden Grimshaw – The Way We Are Free Download
There was this lad at my school called Tom. I didn’t even know him that well, only enough to nod to really, but I think at the time I almost wanted to be him. He had cool clothes, was captain of the school football team, had the latest haircuts and the girls crowded around him, …
New Music: Daniel James – A Lonely Man
Northern-Irish singer-songwriter Daniel James has a new song out called “A Lonely Man”. The 23-year-old, now living in London, has recently been a featured artist on Radio 1’s ‘Introducing’ show. Daniel tells us that this soulful track aims to intertwine two stories – a more commonplace, everyday tale of struggling with day-to-day life and carving …