The Robbie Boyd Band – Autumn’s Flown

Mentally refreshed, that is the best way I can describe my reaction upon listening to the first track from the EP.This is music that expresses honesty and integrity.

I often feel we are living in a world where so … Read More

Nope – Revision

Nope are a noisy foursome from Leeds, featuring guitarist Andy Abbot of instrumental rockers That F**king Tank, and ‘Revision’ is there noise-rock debut release. Like That F**king Tank, Nope are a (predominantly) instrumental group – with their new six … Read More

Zahed Sultan – Reuse Me

Zahed Sultan is a Kuwaiti singer-songwriter and producer who is particularly known for founding social awareness organization ENV (stylized en.v). This new ‘Reuse Me EP’ comes just a year after his debut LP ‘Hi Fear, No Love’, and features … Read More

Gaggle – Army Of Birds

Wow. Just… wow. Gaggle’s ‘Army Of Birds’ is a lush, disorientating beast. Listening to it for the first time, not only am I clouted round the ears by a huge hip-hop stomp of a beat, but I’m surrounded by … Read More

Soulsavers – The Light The Dead See

Soulsavers, the project created by the wicked mind of Rich Machin and Ian Glover, produce their fourth creature, The Light The Dead See, a compendium of darkness in twelve tracks. This album sees the collaboration of Dave Gahan, which … Read More

Still Flyin – On A Bedroom Wall

Holy wow. Y’ever had that moment where a song or an album creeps up on you? Where something starts out as pedestrian but nice enough to keep on listening and lets you lose interest until later, when you come … Read More

Exitmusic – Passage

To have a sense of scale in pop music means that everything, including the appreciation of the music, is amplified. To illustrate, one must only look at the last two Muse albums. Black Holes and Revelations is considered to … Read More

Esperi – Come Dine With Me

Whisper, whisper; tinkly noises; softly, softly strumming the guitar; rustling, rustling sound effects; soft, slow, quiet, repetitive, and so on, and so on, and so forth. This is essentially the order of the day on the rather dull track … Read More

Halfway To New York – Treading Water

Entitling an EP Treading Water is an open invitation to smart-arse critics to make some very obvious allusions to the nature of the music – and I’m certainly not going to be one to avoid such lazy and unimaginative … Read More

The Darlingtons – Bats

Bats, a single from the Darlington’s forthcoming debut Decades Dance, is a 4-minute, emotion-packed guitar track. The dark imagery that surfaces plays cohesively with the playful bass-line and pathos-filled guitars and lyrics. This places The Darlingtons’ sound somewhere between … Read More