ANIMAL KINGDOM – The Looking Away

The Looking Away opens with the mellow ‘The Wave’. It’s a smooth and catchy start to the new album by Animal Kingdom. High pitched vocals blend with the crashing guitar waves to produce a sound appropriately evocative of the ocean. … Read More

THE BEAUTIFUL WORD – May Not Be Love

Simply by watching The Beautiful Word’s music video one can see how much effort has gone into this project (it’s a cute homemade stop motion feature). The way the video is done could come across as childish but it … Read More

CUT YOURSELF IN HALF – Mekkanizm

Excellent Debut from Bradford mentalist’s.

Cut Yourself In Half have delivered a quite simply an awesome debut. From the opening second, Mekkanizm just grabs you and gives you a listening experience that can be described as getting dragged by a moving car … Read More

JULIA BIEL – We Watch The Stars

After working with Polar Bear and with producer Ben Watt of Everything But the Girl, being featured in a Nokia Campaign and being nominated at Rising star BBC jazz awards, Julia Biel presents her second album.

Her first single ‘We … Read More

BITE THE BUFFALO – Blue Lips

It seems to be an unwritten rule of life that even if you’re writing an essay that makes life feel like an evening out under the whims of the Marquis de Sade, there is something about the scuzzy, sparky … Read More

LAC – Borstal Boy EP

Okay. I’ll confess. The moment I saw a press release proclaiming “gritty everyday life” and “real poetic flavour” I did cringe and set it on the procrastinate pile. I get bored of Hollyoaks-the-musical bands trying to be profound, I … Read More

Tom Paxton – Live @ The Union Chapel, Islington

Friday 26th April, London

American singer-songwriter Tom Paxton has been writing, recording and performing folk music since the sixties and this particular evening he was helped by the inventive and intimate Celtic artist Robin Bullock who … Read More

MY DYING BRIDE – The Manuscript

The Manuscript is the latest addition to the seemingly endless catalogue of My Dying Bride. It consists of four tracks left over from the sessions of the last album “A map of all our failures”. With four songs clocking … Read More

MICE PARADE – Candela

It’s refreshing whenever your ears find themselves subject to a sound that is new, energizing, and most crucially generically innovative with regards to its artistic origins. This sensation is less refreshing when you realise you’re a little … Read More

Clark + Daedelus + Kelpe + Anchorsong – Live @ KOKO

Saturday, April 20th

Tonight isn’t just AAAmusic’s second Soundcrash event at KOKO this week. With Hidden Orchestra having to regretfully bail last minute due to illness (was so looking forward to seeing them again), Soundcrash have drafted in Tokyo-born … Read More