Kate Havnevik – You

Kate Havnevik is a Norwegian singer-songwriter, and she sounds a hell of a lot like Frou Frou. Havnevik’s new album ‘You’ contains the same kind of light, electronic music and layered, airy vocals as the now defunct, British electro … Read More

Forest Fire – Staring At The X

“Rhythmic, spacious, crazy effects and totally amazing”

Born Into – The song starts off with an electric guitar being played and being accompanied with some nice lyrics. The guitar turns out to have some trippy effects until the drums … Read More

March On Rome – Higher

March on Rome, indie-rock kids from Essex, have done so many things right. They came up with a great band name, which is more than most 18-year-olds like them can pull off; they have a pretty badass rhythm section; they’ve … Read More

Daniel Pearson – Satellites

Satellites is the debut album from Leeds based singer-songwriter Daniel Pearson. Reading the album credits he is someone who has surrounded himself with an impressive production line-up the album is produced by Ed Heaton whose previous credits include rising … Read More

Planet Brain – Forecasts

At some point in everyone’s life you will find yourself asking yourself “What would Muse sound like without all that wanky space-prog effects?” Well, now you have the answer, Planet Brain. The six track Forecasts EP, three of which … Read More

Shield Your Eyes – Volume 4

It takes one listen to London based trio Shield Your Eyes to understand how they are one of the most misunderstood unsigned bands in Britain. Their melting pot of time signatures, styles and structures can lead to the easy judgement … Read More

Rich Kids on LSD – Greatest Hits / Live in West Berlin

Y’know that stereotype of American Teenagers of the Generation X variety whose vocabulary mainly consisted of various ways of saying “Dude” that made them sound perpetually wasted? Well, as with the vast majority of clichés that stereotype is a … Read More

The Resonance Association – Heliopause

The Resonance Association are an experimental, instrumental duo consisting of Daniel Vincent and Dominic Hemy. Despite only forming in 2006, ‘Heliopause’ is their fourth album, and they’ve also released nearly a dozen EPs.

This album was preceded by the well-received … Read More

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – Nothing But Our Love EP

Eccentric as their name, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr formed in Detroit in

2009 when Josh Epstein and Daniel Zott started sharing different tastes but a similar attitude to creativity and invention. The result is MGMT that meets Animal Collective in … Read More

Veronica Falls – Veronica Falls

Right from the start, what is most striking about Veronica Falls’ self-titled LP is the paradoxical atmosphere of understated melodrama. The opener is even titled ‘Found My Love In A Graveyard’, a suitably dark and slow-burning song, with a … Read More