March 2021’s Best New Music

10. Low Steppa – Lay It On Me 9. Arab Strap – Fable of the Urban Fox (Read about their … More

William Doyle – Great Spans of Muddy Time review

It’s pretty interesting when the ideas behind album titles are explained – although clearly there are exceptions to be made … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #76 David Holmes – Rodney Yates

Released: 1997 David Holmes wasn’t the first Irishman to make the pilgrimage from the old country to New York, but … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #77 The Cardigans – Erase/Rewind

Released : 1998 In Britain during the seventies and eighties we had a perverse collective jealousy of Sweden; some of … More

Blanketman – National Trust EP review

Written off in some quarters a few years ago – there’s even a lively and seemingly conjoined ongoing debate going … More

100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #78 Verve – A Man Called Sun

Released : 1993 Just a few years later they would be superstars, burnouts, enemies, but in the earlier part of … More

Arab Strap – As Days Get Dark review

The Sound of old Scotland, redux.

100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s #79 Luscious Jackson – Naked Eye

Released : 1996 It was one of the more unlikely precepts on which to join a group, but when Jill … More

Balthazar – Sand review

They say that fear of the unknown is what causes human beings the most stress of all situations, but although … More

Kings of Leon – When You See Yourself review

These days life comes at you slow for the Followill clan. It’s not that rock n’ roll excesses are totally … More