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

Mummy Short Arms – Silicone Dream

If you’re a fan of Kings of Leon which, let’s face it, most of us are thanks to ‘Sex on Fire’, chances are you’ll at least appreciate Mummy Short Arms’ latest single ‘Silicone Dream’. Whether you’ll like it or … 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

Matt Norris and the Moon – Roots Below and Eyes of a Storm

This is somewhat bland acoustic guitar fare – agreeable enough, but overly simple, repetitive and lacking in any particularly original musical content or vibrant character. It’s competently executed, true to the folk genre and certainly not painful on the ears, … 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