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