‘Sometimes I wake up/and I wonder/What is my job/I play my bass loud!‘ Thus opens Gina Birch‘s debut solo album,...
You’ve simply got to love Emily Breeze. Advised to keep her age under wraps, approaching the milestone of 40, she...
The first release from this North Eastern supergroup (well, super duo at least), Unthank : Smith brings together Rachel Unthank,...
Luke Haines has never been one to follow a conventional path to success. The frontman of The Auteurs, a band...
When a band states that they’re going back to their roots, it can go one of two ways; it’s either...
In the last days of the Anthropocene, while big-corp sponsored rockets head to Mars fleeing a burning planet and others...
If there’s anyone that has the lyrical and musical dexterity to move from such an organic, nature-based LP in A...
Like quite a lot of other contributors to God Is In The TV (I imagine), my long-suffering spouse has to...
Do we REALLY need a band who sound like Richard Thompson fronting R.E.M. that seemingly take their musical cues from...
As a fifty-something it’s easy to say that ‘I Wish I Had Duck Feet’, only for the reply to come,...
“Bodies, birth, death, machines. Those are four immense things we have in common.” (‘Outro, The Let Down‘). Since Meghan Remy...
Imagine you are sitting in a local café on a Sunday afternoon. Among the sounds of newspaper pages turning and...
In 1966 Timothy Leary said that we should “Turn on, tune in and drop out”. The American psychologist and author known...
To emotionally keep one’s head above water as the rippling waves mercilessly attempt to drown your soul is a difficult...
Paramore’s latest album This is Why marks something of a momentous occasion for the band; it’s the first time in...