“I’ve always made albums for people to listen to alone in their bedrooms”, confesses Matt Johnson towards the end of…
Beach House – 7 Review
Your life can go many ways depending on the number 7: fate, chance and destiny whirl around it like cosmic…
Soft Science – Paris/Sooner Review
From Northern California, Soft Science’s press release describes them – you can only imagine euphemistically – as “Molecular gastronomists”, when…
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…
Live At Leeds – Review
Great weather, 200 bands spread across venues from shoebox to main stage (And one former petrol station) – this year’s…
Introducing May’s Playlist – Updated
More tunes? Ok then. Is the new Arctic Monkeys album duff or dynamite? Listen to One Point Perspective and try…
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…
Future Sound of London – ISDN Review
“They made music that they once described as “Immersive soup”, but here the tone is more about the abstract, far out places of experimentation which echo the krautrock, free jazz and psychedelic nuances which became their later avatars.”
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…
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…
The Voice Of Unreason 