The best thing about being British is our constant ability to surprise ourselves; despite the charts being filled with auto … More
Tag: Indie
Introducing – Glass Mountain
Named after an etching by David Hockney, Glass Mountain are a quartet from the famous artist’s home city of Bradford … More
Shame – Songs of Praise Review
What with the music industry just returning to growth after years of declining revenues it’s unlikely that it’s going to … More
Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly – Young Adult Review
No longer the fresh-faced strummer of his 2006 debut The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager, now thirty something Sam Duckworth … More
Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
“Acerbic screen grabs of the viscerality of millions of people’s real lives bringing the fuzz of existence in the gap between working proper and jobbing, school and ASBO’s and the feeling of being better off permanently anaesthetised into a relief so sharp it was like a one band manifesto.”
Best songs of 2017 #20 Nabibah Iqbal – Something More
From the album Weighing Of The Heart
Best songs of 2017 #24 Alvvays – Dreams Tonite
From the album Antisocialites.
Best songs of 2017 #30 Neon Waltz – Heavy Heartless
From the album Strange Hymns.
The Vaccines – What Did You Expect From The Vaccines
“Whilst White Lies and Delphic liked to cloister all their synth pop yearnings in po-faced home counties Gothery, The Vaccines want to fuck to forget us.”
The Cribs – Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever review
“At times, it’s breathless and brilliant, from the screeching, larynx grating Men’s Needs to the Strokes-with-a-purpose of Major’s Tilting Victory”
