Huey Lewis & the News – Soulsville

When you hear the name of Huey Lewis & the News you mind immediately thinks of Michael J. Fox skateboarding to school with The Power of Love on the background, Back to the future and its soundtrack marked an … Read More

The Daydream Club – Overgrown

It should be enforced by law now. Anyone who buys a guitar with the intention of finger-picking it and gently crooning confessional lyrics over the top of it should be given a note with said purchase, the note … Read More

Gwyneth Herbert – Clangers And Mash

The acoustic zeitgeist has, for some reason, lent itself to a massive rise in the number of solo female singer-songwriters recording lo-fi collections of songs with an “intimate” quality. Gwyneth Herbert has done exactly that in ‘Clangers And Mash’. … Read More

Izzi Dunn – Cries and Smiles

‘Cries and Smiles’ opens with the biggest piece of sass that you are likely to hear all year in ‘Tits and Ass.’ It is a track that will have people dancing and tutting in equal measure but at least … Read More

The Good The Bad – From 001 To 017

The Good The Bad strike me as a band who think that they are being pretty inventive when in reality they are pretty far from the mark. ‘From 001 to 017’ is an entirely instrumental rock ‘n’ roll album … Read More

The Black Dove Experiment – The Black Dove Experiment EP

Anyone who knows me could vouch for my growing cynicism and tiredness surrounding all this acoustic folk-pop style indie. Anyway, sometimes I will complacently open up a CD thinking it will be more of the same, … Read More

Hauschka – Foreign Landscape

Volker Bertelmann’s prolific mind produces another jewel of minimalism. Dusseldorf based pianist and composer evolves here from his John Cage and Erik Satie’s influences to a more complex creature that seems influenced by a renovated post-rock sensibility.

Gifted Bertelmann … Read More

Tall Ships – There Is Nothing But Chemistry Here

Brighton’s own Tall Ships prove to be an impressive band on their sophomore E.P. Impressive not necessarily being the same as good. They definitely have original ideas, they are technically very good, Ric Phethean’s vocals in particular being something … Read More

Walls – Gaberdine

Just before the ‘Walls’ go into studio hibernation to work on their 2011 creation of sounds and wonderments for the music sphere, they have left this final Ep, consisting of ‘Gaberdine’ along with four fantastic remixes.

The opener is … Read More

Fuck Dance Let’s Art – Various Artists

‘Fuck Dance Let’s Art’ is a just under seventy minutes worth compilation album of what is arguable the best in current avant-garde esque art music scene in the States, with tracks from the likes of ‘Bear in Heaven’, ‘Crystal … Read More