The Phantom Band – The Wants

‘The Wants’ is brand new album from ‘The Phantom Band’, full of soft experimental instrumentals and soothing powerful male vocals similar to that of Simon Neil (Biffy Clyro).

The opening track ‘A Glamour’, is soft and soothing but still … Read More

Cloud Nothing – Hey Cool Kid

‘Hey Cool Kid’ is the new Ep from Cleveland’s finest ‘Cloud Nothing. The Ep consists of two tracks; ‘Hey Cool Kid’ and ‘Old Street. The vocals are similar to that of Jon Philpot’s (Bear in Heaven) and are teamed … Read More

Jon Thorne & Danny Thompson – Watching The Well

Cinematic, evocative, dreamlike. I thought I should give you the three adjectives that will inevitably be used in describing ‘Watching The Well’, a classically-influenced instrumental album by Jon Thorne and Danny Thompson. Feeling like the soundtrack to the most … Read More

Fallacies – Searching For Conviction

“Hardcore” is a much-maligned genre, it has to be said. Stemming from a trailblazing pedigree of Fugazi and Minutemen, it has somehow become synonymous with angsty teenagers playing questionable metal very fast. However, from Wolverhampton come Fallacies, with a … Read More

Killer Shrimp – Whatever Sincerely; Tales from the Baltic Wharf

Killer Shrimp is a super jazz band that lurks in the alleys of London but dreams about the streets of New York.

The trumpet of Damon Brown (Specials, Desmond Dekker), the saxophon of Ed Jones (US3, Incognito), plus the … Read More

Chocolate Genius Inc. – Swansongs

It’s very complicate to categorize an artist such as Marc Anthony Thompson, a.k.a. Chocolate Genius Inc., especially after an accurate listening of his fourth album Swansongs.

Here the crude energy of indie rock meets the sensual desires of soul … Read More

Hot Club Of Cowtown – What Makes Bob Holler

Well, it has to be said: country in its many forms is often maligned by the music press as an embarrassing cliché, the Wild West being a fable long since passed on and the American farmhand tradition now replaced … Read More

Dar Williams – Many Great Companions

Dar Williams takes the listener to the places she loves the most via a double cd which has all it takes to be on your Christmas shopping list. The first part – Songs Revisited With Guitar And A Few … Read More

Surrounded – Oppenheimer & Woodstock

Gentle and tender without being contrived, and Surrounded have created a fragile moment of beauty in their latest offering: ‘Oppenheimer & Woodstock’. On the surface, this appears to be yet more indie rock with jangly guitars, but on a … Read More

Burn So Bright – Sparks

Non-threatening pop rock (and not much else) lies at the heart of Burn So Bright’s newest release Sparks. It’d be wrong to write the band off as just another (early) Fall Out Boy clone – despite certain similarities, Burn … Read More