Master and the Mule – The View From Nowhere

Leeds-based band Master and The Mule’s debut album The View From Nowhere is the link between post-rock grandeur and ambient fantasia, an ambitious and often far-out work on atmosphere. The record is mostly instrumental, with sparse yet powerful traces … Read More

Dead Sons – Room 54

The Dead Sons’ new single Room 54 is a hectic, strangled rock song whose Arctic Monkeys influence, complete with the heavy QOTSA aftertaste, is a most pleasing one. As fellow Sheffield-ers the Dead Sons’ recapturing of such sounds is … Read More

Hot Chip – Night and Day

In Our Heads is Hot Chip’s fifth and new album and the single just released is Night And Day. Indie dancers are already playing the galactic video directed by Peter Serafinowicz. Remixed by Daphni for a limited edition 12” … Read More

Hiatus – Change Up (feat. Smoke Feathers)

Cyrus Shahrad met Matt Falloon at university long ago. By then, they formed a band, Holy Smoke, together with Alexis Taylor on guitar, that you might know as member of Hot Chip.

Who are they? Cyrus is now an … Read More

The Walkmen – Heaven

Their sixth album – Heaven – sees The Walkmen continue in a folk-like idiom with lots of simple harmonies, repetition and uncomplicated guitar band textures. Pleasant enough on the ear, it’s hardly earth-shattering stuff and lacks any real originality, … Read More

Death of an Artist – X

Oh Christ. If there’s a dilemma that could only happen to a critic it’s what’s happening now. Y’see, Death of an Artist suffer from mind-numbing averageness, they’re not that bad, they’re not that good, consequently it’s extremely difficult to … Read More

Funeral Suits – Lily Of The Valley

Goddammit this is refreshing. Earlier today I reviewed what might be my 17’439th boring, derivative post-hardcore band and the feeling of switching from that to something as thrillingly unique as the debut from Irish Post-Rockers Funeral Suits is better … Read More

Black Hats – Austerity For The Hoi Polloi

Just few weeks after the first single Kick In The Doors, Black Hats release their first EP, Austerity For The Hoi Polloi, a collection of six anthemic indie tunes.

In spite of the energy and the positive vibes AFTHP … Read More

Jake Mattison – Sorrow

A former recruit of Simon Cowell’s Syco song writing wing, Jake Mattison has launched a career of his own at the slightly later age of 32 after biding his time as a market trader in his home of Manchester. … Read More

The Sea – ‘Rooftops’

Cornish duo The Sea originally released their second record ‘Rooftops’ at the end of 2011, but despite solid reviews and a few high profile support slots, not to mention having a single featured in Hollyoaks, the album perhaps didn’t … Read More