Night Verses – Out Of The Sky

In the States, the great genre of Post-Hardcore hasn’t quite gone overground in the same way it has over here. Meaning that American Post-Hardcore bands have a much higher chance of sounding, interesting, unique and blisteringly heavy than over … Read More

The Scratch – Great Adventure

Great Adventure is the 4th album from St Albans band The Scratch. The album sounds distinctly retro and brings together classic ingredients: harmonies, humour and pinches of English eccentricity in short but sweet 3 minute songs. The band’s influences … Read More

The Wind-Up Birds – The Land

The Land is the debut album from The Wind-Up Birds. An album about community, communication, isolation and pure Englishness – The Wind-up Birds sound about as English as it gets, hailing from northern Leeds. The vocals and lyrics are … Read More

The Dead Wretched – Anchors Down

A new little project in the music world is the British record label Believe Revolt. Where would you start recruiting bands for your new label? In the obscure land of avant-garde jazz? In the plethora of indie rock/pop bands … Read More

FOREIGN SLIPPERS – It All Starts Now EP

Singer Gabrielle Froden is a London based alternative indie artist, author and songwriter from Norrkoping in Sweden. She’s part of the folk and gospel duo Foreign Slippers.

It All Starts Now is released on May 14th, 2012 by Adventures … Read More

The Son(s) – Leviathan

There are no words to describe how excited I get when I check out an EP from a band I’ve never heard of, in this case The Son(s) – Leviathan, and fall in love with each track. Furthermore, there … Read More

Beach House – Bloom

Baltimore duo, Alex Scally (guitar, keys) and Victoria Legrand (vocals, organ) made it again. Their fourth album is right there and I’m streaming it. It’s called Bloom.

In a music world where everything is too fast and we, music … Read More

iLIKETRAINS – The Shallows

Simple, unpretentious and evocative electronica mixed with alternative rock is the order of the day on The Shallows by iLiKETRAiNS. It’s not an unpleasant album to listen to, but neither is it a particularly memorable one. The best impression … Read More

Young Hines – Give Me My Change

It’s a bit of a strange one is Give Me My Change by Young Hines. It’s one of those albums with lots of very likeable individual tracks, but without a consistent sound. Consequently, it lacks a sense of identity. … Read More

KATZENJAMMER – A Kiss Before You Go

Katzenjammer, the Norwegian four-girl band, is set to release their second album on May the 7th on Propeller Records. It’s always hard to release a new album (the second one in this case), especially for Katzenjammer, after the charming … Read More