Album, Single, EP and Live Reviews

Albums: The Super Vacations - Thicker Milk (SHDWPLY)
You can envisage a band of hippies smashing up their instruments and setting a drum kit on fire.
Posted on Sep 6th, 2010
Albums: Wildbirds and Peacedrums - Rivers (Leaf)
Recorded over a week in Iceland, the country’s cold, wet and empty landscape comes biting through.
Posted on Sep 6th, 2010
Live Reviews: Allo Darlin’ @ Proud Galleries, Camden 25.08.10
Feeling tired and sick Bearded drags itself across London, into the hazy red-lit fug of the Proud Gallery, Camden, and takes it's place in front of the stage. After a short delay and some geek-based banter from Elizabeth and Bill, Allo Darlin’ launch into their opener 'If Loneliness Was Art'. As the opening chords and bouncing base washes over me, entwined with the lyrics ‘If loneliness was art, I could hang you from the wall’, suddenly the fug of smoke and the heady scent of Red wine isn’t too much. It is just enough to support the weight of the energetic Indie melodies that resonate through the audience.
Posted on Sep 1st, 2010
Live Reviews: Green Man 20-22.08.10
The best music festivals in life do themselves an injustice by labelling themselves in such narrow terms. The best music festivals combine it all under one beautiful term: ‘culture’. You could probably call it a vibe, but that would sound a tad too hippyish for an event that essentially poured more rainwater into your lungs than African woodbine.
Posted on Sep 1st, 2010
Albums: The Smiles And Frowns - The Smiles And Frowns (Akoustik Anarkhy)
Early psychedelic quirkiness from Arizona's newest musical sons.
Posted on Aug 27th, 2010
Albums: The Soundcarriers - Celeste (Melodic)
Nottingham quartet The Soundcarriers - Adam, Pish, Dorian and Little Barrie - have come up with another rummage through a 60s/70s musical charity shop that is just as appealing as their justly acclaimed 2009 debut Harmonium.
Posted on Aug 27th, 2010
Albums: Autolux - Transit Transit (ATP)
It's been a fair few years since the release of their debut record, has Transit Transit been worth the wait?
Posted on Aug 27th, 2010
Albums: Tame Impala - Innerspeaker (Modular)
Debut record from Australia's newsest psych rockers succeeds in justifying tongues-a-wagging.
Posted on Aug 23rd, 2010
Albums: Bronto Skylift - The White Crow (self-release)
Spasmodic riffs and songs with unsettling patterns set somewhere between a math-rock enthusiast having a fit and scuzzy riffs getting down and dirty with your speakers. Those pesky Scots!!!
Posted on Aug 23rd, 2010
Albums: Moulettes - Moulettes (Balling The Jack)
If the Moulettes were a drink, they would certainly be Sailor Jerry’s.
Posted on Aug 21st, 2010
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