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

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

Recently New Zealand based website The Spinoff published a lengthy piece on what as they saw it was the recalibration … More

Sometimes it’s hard to spot the join in artist’s careers, the definitive moments in which they shed a skin and … More

Sometimes the prodigal son motifs just don’t quite fit; when Nick Hodgson left the Kaiser Chiefs – the band with … More

The best thing about being British is our constant ability to surprise ourselves; despite the charts being filled with auto … More

What with the music industry just returning to growth after years of declining revenues it’s unlikely that it’s going to … More

There’s always a been a timeless quality to Jono McCleery’s music: blessed with a cracked, late night voice that could … More

No longer the fresh-faced strummer of his 2006 debut The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager, now thirty something Sam Duckworth … More

Last week saw the release of ShadowFormerSelf, the latest single from former A Man Called member Simon Grainger’s excellent Enemy … More