LUKE RITCHIE – Butterfly

As a London based acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter, Luke Ritchie has played with artists like The Golden Retrievers and acclaimed folk singer Hannah Peel . His rich, passionate folk and blues style is compared with John Martyn and Paul … Read More

AL LEWIS – Treading Water

As a Welsh musician Al Lewis has been BBC Radio Cymru’s Best Male Artist for the last two years. He’s become increasingly well known and released two successful Welsh language albums. Supporters include DJs Steve Lamacq, Huw Stephens, Janice … Read More

Dewayne Everettsmith – It’s Like Love

‘It’s Like Love’ is the debut (UK) single from Australian singer-songwriter Dewayne Everettsmith – a collaboration with viola player Jasmine Beans that has soundtracked Australia’s tourism marketing campaign.

It’s a slice of clean, pop-folk balladry, with slow burning acoustic … Read More

Viv Albertine – The Vermilion Border

‘The Vermilion Border’ is the debut album by legendary The Slits guitarist Viv Albertine, and it comes 33 years after the debut album ‘Cut’ from that all-female Brit punk band.

It’s eleven tracks of drawling punk vocals, that Viv … Read More

Pablo Nouvelle – One more Chance

Swiss filmmaker and musician Pablo Nouvelle – aka Fabio Friedli – has been creating quite the buzz this year. His blend of electronica and hip-hop with old pop and soul music is extremely accessible despite its intentional experimentation.

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Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Frankie Said

‘Frankie Said’ is ANOTHER collection of Frankie Goes to Hollywood songs, an 80s pop band that only ever released seven singles. This particular collection is a little different from other releases, and it contains different versions of the chart … Read More

James Iha – Look At The Sky

It took James Iha a while to produce another solo album, as he’s been busy with other projects and bands. Finally, here comes Look To The Sky, a collection of acoustic and electric guitar accompanied by electronic keyboard, which … Read More

Damn Vandals – This Amazing

Well, this is just inconsiderate. Damn Vandals here seem to have the gall to sound recognisably like a guitar band but not immediately bring to mind another band. While this is fantastic news to them, as they already seem … Read More

Bad for Lazarus – My Muddle

You can have as much deafening feedback as you want, as many smashed guitars and Metal Machine Music’s as you want, the weirdest songs will always be the ones with an enormous, heaping dose of melody along with its … Read More

Autoheart – Control

I’m never sure whether to trust any band that actively refers themselves as a “Pop group”. I mean, I know that any band that plays music and appeals to a wide variety of people is technically a “Pop group” … Read More