Review: Scarlette Fever – The Great Expectations EP
An eerily ambient hand clapping accompaniment paves the way for the Regina Spektor being interrupted by Sheryl Crow vocals, as the expressive Scarlette Fever ponders the meaning of significant others,...
View ArticleReviews: We Are Augustines – Chapel Song
Billy McCarthy’s vocals strain, as though he has been waiting for decades to get this particular point across. Then he falls silent while a clambering tambourine, rubbing drums and a twining digital...
View ArticleReview: This Many Boyfriends – Starling
Striking, twisting guitar licks and rat-a-tat percussion combos threatens to morph, ‘Starling’ into a sickly “woe is me”, pop-punk throwaway of a track. That said, these Richard Boyfriend led northern...
View ArticleReview: AMADOU & MIRIAM – Dougou Bada (Feat. Santigold)
A lost and lonesome acoustic trickle flows into a churning guitar grind paves the way for expressive, tribal vocals provided with equal measures of clarity, desperation and drama by Santi. They wrap...
View ArticleReview: Blood Red Shoes – Cold
A Katie-Jane Garside vocal crawl creeps up behind biting guitars, thrusting percussion and the growling backing touch of Steven Ansell, ‘Cold’. It represents a step into a heavier direction for this...
View ArticleTom Williams & The Boat (Teenage Blood)
Jangle, country pop/rock is delivered with a yearning, hardwearing vocal tug by the erstwhile Williams and, a haunting string stirred interlude provides for a multi-layered, contemplative effort,...
View ArticleReview: The Futureheads – The No.1 Song In Heaven/Meet Me Halfway
Gospel undercoated, ambient backing is all that accompanies the longing, echoing and slower than normal cry of Barry Hyde to introduce the adventurous a cappella cover of The Sparks’, ‘The No.1 Song in...
View ArticleReview: The Cast Of Cheers – Animals
An atmospheric, tapping percussion led intro’ decorates the restrained, but demonstratively stammered vocals of Conor Adams, ‘Animals’. Roving keys adds instrumental adventure to contrast with the...
View ArticleReview: We Are Augustines – Juarez
Ryan Adams and Bruce Springsteen flavoured blues rock tainted vocals revolve around a fuzzed up electric guitar grind, ‘Juarez’. This dusky, homage paying to a Mexican town resting on the South Border...
View ArticleBreton – Jostle/Foam
A conjoining of the twisting synths led sound of maverick electro manipulators Shy Child, with a stammering and a touch worried, post-mod vocal stance adopted by the likes of The Rakes, ‘Jostle’....
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