“I’ve always made albums for people to listen to alone in their bedrooms”, confesses Matt Johnson towards the end of … More
Category: Features
Beach House – 7 Review
Your life can go many ways depending on the number 7: fate, chance and destiny whirl around it like cosmic … More
Soft Science – Paris/Sooner Review
From Northern California, Soft Science’s press release describes them – you can only imagine euphemistically – as “Molecular gastronomists”, when … More
Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Review
When artists normally talk about exploring their creative freedom they don’t really mean it. Results are usually underwhelming: A new … More
Live At Leeds – Review
Great weather, 200 bands spread across venues from shoebox to main stage (And one former petrol station) – this year’s … More
April Round Up
What an April it’s been! Getting straight to it Shame didn’t disappoint with their show at The Brudenell, also caught … More
James – Better Than That EP review
2018 has been a year for taking stock for many of us; miraculously we survived 2017 as a species, whilst … More
Nick Hodgson – Live In Leeds
What price a homecoming? Nick Hodgson has trod the boards in Leeds many times as one fifth of the Kaiser … More
Josh Rouse – Love In The Modern Age Review
Nebraskan Josh Rouse has been operating at the margins of the indie-folk mainstream for almost two decades now, along the … More
Shame – Live In Leeds Review
“Live, they’re still in the intimacy phase; rolling his shoulders like a piston, singer Charlie Steen beckons the audience closer to the front every time his cohorts almost imperceptibly turn things up a notch”