Better late then ever…updated 26.03. TONS of new stuff, from Two Door Cinema Club, Years & Years, Courtney Barnett, Diplo … More
Author: arcticreviewsblog
Hi, my name is Andy & I live in Leeds, in northern England. I've been writing about music for more than ten years. My work outside of this blog is featured on Live4ever and Contact Music.
In Town This Week – Hookworms
The story surrounding Leeds band Hookworms third album Microshift isn’t uplifting just because it became a surprise top 20 hit … More
Franz Ferdinand – Always Ascending Review
Given that their last album Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions was created out of the band’s near demise, the … More
Idles – Exclusive Interview
Bristolian five piece Idles had a tumultuous 2017, releasing the widely acclaimed album Brutalism and with their hilarious and visceral live … More
Weekender #8 Goldie – Timeless
Like all good urban legends, the tale of how Clifford Joseph Price, formerly of Walsall and then London via Miami … More
Goldie – Timeless Review
Released 12th September 1995. An upfront, bastard child of rave, Jungle had until 1993 remained firmly underground, it’s shredding bass … More
Wild Beasts – Last Night All My Dreams Came True review
It’s rare that you get to choose the terms of your own exit; in the case of Wild Beasts it’s … More
Calexico – The Thread That Keeps Us Review
Recently New Zealand based website The Spinoff published a lengthy piece on what as they saw it was the recalibration … More
Haus – Live at the Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
“There was to be none of the expected rawness in which you associate with up and coming bands and HAUS come across as a group well beyond their years already in terms of live performance.”
Weekender #6 Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
There was an inevitability to the re-emergence of the hirsute, check shirted urban wilderness man; as a species we’d survived … More
