It always seems a little awkward to refer to Steve Mason as “..the former singer in the Beta Band“, but … More
Tag: Indie
Dry Cleaning – Swampy EP review
For those critics who sneered at Dry Cleaning, ridiculing them as parody, the quartet’s last album Stumpwork was a rebuttal … More
Shame – Food For Worms review
“I don’t think you can be in your own head forever,” Shame singer Charlie Steen has said in the run … More
Tennis – Pollen review
Husband and wife partnerships in the music industry are relatively rare, so firstly let’s hear it for Alaina Moore and … More
Gaz Coombes – Turn The Car Around review
The soundtrack to a midlife crisis often makes for very awkward listening, so whilst Gaz Coombes will find it hard … More
100 Greatest Songs of the 00’s #93 The Futureheads – Hounds of Love
Released: 2005 The phrase “Indie landfill” was coined by The Word magazine’s Andrew Harrison, one which rapidly became a blanket … More
Billy Nomates – CACTI review
It’s an unlikely beginning, but for Tor Maries the path to a kind of redemption came via a Sleaford Mods … More
Belle and Sebastian – Late Developers review
After all these years since appearing in the mid nineties with Tigermilk, given what we now know one of the … More
Voice of the Beehive – Let It Bee Reissue Review
It’s not a pub quiz question that gets asked very regularly, but the answer to “What happened to Woody Woodgate … More
Asylums – Signs of Life review
In many ways Signs of Life was a record that Asylums both had to make but didn’t need. On the … More