“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…
Ghosts On The Wire – 20 Years of Music Has The Right To Children
June, 1998. A friend of mine has leant me two albums; one is Adam F’s Colours, a more than palatable…
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…
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”
Manic Street Preachers – Resistance Is Futile Review
How do you solve a problem like the Manic Street Preachers, if you’re the Manic Street Preachers? Choices abound; keep…
The Ballad Of Shirley Collins OST – Review
Everyone’s story can, with some self-effacement, be told in just a few words. Shirley Collins sums up hers pithily during…
Introducing April’s Playlist – UPDATED
There’s never been a more diverse playlist than this month’s – and now it’s been updated with a gob-smakcing 19…
The March Roundup
March is always an exciting month in music, as along comes a whole clutch of releases in what is regarded…
The Voice Of Unreason 