Sometimes “cinematic” can be a lazy catchall to describe music, but for Laura Cahen’s De l’Autre Côté, it’s both accurate...
I remember hearing this album for the first time vividly. As a huge Pixies fan, I was excited when the...
Looking up ‘Birdfeeder live’ on YouTube will lead you down a rabbit hole of hours of engrossing footage. Bugger all...
What should have been a hop, skip, and a jump up the M1 was a prolonged slog out of Nottingham....
On ‘It Wasn’t Me’ from her ninth solo album, Showtunes from the Shadows, Helen McCookerybook sings, “I’m a chameleon /...
2025 has got a lot to live up to. Last year was such a strong year for albums, for both...
Wardruna’s Birna is an album about bears. But not just bears in the flesh-and-blood sense, lumbering through Nordic forests. These are bears...
There’s nothing like starting your day with a cat sniffing your milk. No, a local stray hadn’t infiltrated the Travelodge,...
At the recent London premiere of the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, the star of the film Timothée Chalamet arrived for the...
One of my favourite things each year is hearing debut albums. There is just something so exciting about hearing what...
The Gentle Spring are the new band formed by Michael Hiscock, founder member of 1990s indie-pop favourites The Field Mice,...
The current mindset of a musician can be read into the way tracks are spelt on an album. On predecessor...
With a gentle smile traced across his face, Simon Joyner speaks about his current “ill advised” tour of Europe and...
We were going to take it easy, but we got to the hotel after midnight and devoured bourbon biscuits and...
One of the toughest things for a musician to do is to follow up an acclaimed album, even more so...