The Voluntary Butler Scheme – Brain Freeze

The Voluntary Butler Scheme is back but with more of a return to his first album. The single is full of fun and funk in one catchy indie pop pill. The single is taken from the new album, A Million … Read More

Limozine – Tokyo 1970

Following their album Full Service, Limozine release their new single Tokyo 1970. As can be guessed from the title this new release keeps the bands’ trashy punk rock style, reminiscent of the Ramones and the Stooges but this time … Read More

Velcro Hooks – Gymnophoria

There has been a healthy, developing indie noise scene in the US for some time now, while it feels like we have been experiencing some kind of blip in UK alternative music of this sort. Over the last year, … Read More

Té – Therefore, the illusion of density breach, the tottering world “forget” tomorrow

I had real trouble researching and writing this review. The album arrived in the post, with no press release. The band, from Japan, are called té, which the band and fans spell as te’ – neither or which are … Read More

Breathless – Next Time You Fall

I’d never heard of Breathless before writing this review. Apparently, they’ve been around for years and years and years…

Led by the beautifully voiced Dominic Appleton, Breathless make some eerie form of chillout alternative rock – an understated fusion … Read More

BJORK – Bastards

Experimental artist Bjork is well established in Iceland as an electronica, worldbeat, drum & bass and rock musician. Her latest album gathers “the essence of the remixes” and she’s helped by the artists she loves: Death Grips, The Slips, … Read More

VALERIE JUNE – Workin’ Woman Blues

Tennessee country, gospel and Delta blues artist Valerie June sings self-styled “organic moonshine roots music”. With versatility she also captures folk, soul, bluegrass and Appalachian.

Her début single Workin’ Woman Blues is taken from her début album Pushin’ Against … Read More

JOE DRISCOLL & SEKOU KOUYATE – Faya

Critically acclaimed New Yorker Joe Driscoll and West African star Sekou Kouyate are a potent blend of folk, blues, rock, reggae, hip-hop and afro beat. They sing in English and Sousou respectively.

Sekou Kouyate, a Ghanaian musician, is … Read More

Sivert Hoyem – Where Is My Moon?

Ever heard of a Spellemannprisen? Me neither. Which is a real shame, I realised, upon listening to Sivert Hoyem’s new EP, as it turns out that the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy award is a very accurate indication of … Read More

Fight The Dice – Bad Decisions

Well, at the very least, this is interesting. In their debut single, Fight The Dice seem to have collected all the parts of the past decade of homespun pop-rock that inspire an extreme reaction and piled them into the same … Read More