Picture by Paul Kintzing (German Error Message) As I write this and relive our time from start to end ~ as a music blog, tears moisten my eyes, the mud at the riverside left soft and sticky, the defences specked with salt but not overcome. When I started this, I thought my motivation was simple – the […]
Previously we described Leeds’ Green Gardens as a group with impeccable harmonies and charmingly restrained rhythms. The desert rock riff that opens new single ‘Buried in Snow’ downright near sandblasts that restrained tag off. Taken from forthcoming EP ‘Sauna, Teach Me How to Breathe’, the single is frankly dizzying, its waves calming and crashing at […]
A review of BUGS’ debut single ‘Nick Gowland’
A review of Talitha Ferri’s Porcelain
TOPS select their five favourite current acts
A review of Uma Bloo’s new single ‘Coming Home’
A review of Forever Honey’s new single ‘Twenty-Five’
Our ‘Album of the Week’ review of Family Selection Box’s ‘Here Comes The Wave’
Our ‘Album of the Week’ review of Anna Burch’s ‘If You’re Dreaming’
A review of Francis of Delirium’s single ‘Circles’
A long read interview with Jennah Barry about her album ‘Holiday’, out now on Forward Music Group
Our album of the week review of Dana Gavanski’s ‘Yesterday is Gone’
‘In The Morning’ is the towering lead single from LA-based artist A.O. Gerber’s forthcoming debut record ‘Another Place to Need’. After a cleansing, revitalising start, the true colours of ‘In The Morning’ shine fiery red, Gerber letting loose in a rage which refuses to simmer until the song burns out. Though balm-like in the beginning, […]
On new single ‘Snake’, Margate-based sound architect BABii realises that the only way to free herself of a bad spirit is to express it through song. ‘A vicious ode to a manipulative spiteful person who has caused me, and a lot of people who are close to me, so much emotional pain’, ‘Snake’ is proudly […]
A review of Porridge Radio’s ‘Every Bad’
A premiere of Hollan’s single ‘Wild Man’
‘New Dreams’ is the eighth album Jófríður Ákadóttir (JFDR) has released in eight years. It is only her second full-length under the JFDR moniker, the other six emerging from projects like Pascal Pinon, a folk duo she formed with her twin sister at the age of 14, Samaris, an electronic trio she started at the […]
A review of Hilary Woods’ ‘Birthmarks’
It’s funny that Manchester songwriter Alf Whitby’s artwork always features nature. His songs suspend you in a silence similar to that experienced by neighbours looking out at a blood moon, a solar eclipse, a crimson sky. You just stand and admire, watch it play out in front of you. Words cannot suffice. ‘Mountain (For Change)’ […]
A video interview with TORRES ahead of her headline show at Yes in Manchester on Wednesday 04 March
Our album of the week review of Snarls’ ‘Burst’
Chloe Foy talks us through five current artists she’s loving right now
By Sarah Ross If you read any music blogs or follow any indie music Twitter accounts, chances are you’ve heard of Ratboys. If you follow the Canadian outfit PUP, with whom Ratboys toured last fall, you’ve almost definitely heard of Ratboys. And if you follow Bernie Sanders and his campaign stops, particularly that of Jan. […]
A review of Marmalakes’ singer and guitarist Chase Weinacht’s debut single ‘Leap Day’
Our album of the week review of ‘Sour Widows’
A review of Tom John Hall’s single ‘Human’
