The Ela Minus manifesto has been unleashed to the public. 10 tracks, 41 minutes long. Every day you’ll face challenges...
When revisiting the film Psycho sixty years after it was first shown on cinema screens around the world, certain parallels...
The back story to plunderphonic-pop-soul duo Girlhood is intriguing. Producer Christian Pinchbeck (previously in dreamy retro two-piece Elephant) and vocalist...
Twinkle³ have a history with improvised music and space. On their debut album, Let’s Make a Solar System, Richard Scott,...
Looking at the cover of Lou Berry’s debut album Inner World, it’s hard to get a handle on what you...
A band from Bristol have just released their difficult third album. It follows on the heels of an album that...
One of the criticisms sometimes lazily levelled at ambient music, by people who will not engage with the genre on...
I bloody love this. Initial thoughts upon playing The Jungle, the fifth full length release by Montreal’s Plants And Animals,...
When a member of a well established band branches out to perform solo material, their reputation is at stake. They...
1987, along with 1967 and 1977 before it, was part of the late 20th Century’s three-pronged cultural Renaissance: when each...
There’s no shortage of negatives about 2020, but let’s focus, for a moment on some of the positives. It’s been...
Toronto’s post-punk noiseniks Bike Thiefs are instantly likeable underdogs who sound as though they’ve thrown everything they have into debut...
Growing up I was ideologically opposed to emo music, something which I am happy has changed as I’ve gotten older. ...
Listening to Receiver, the fourth long player from The Rheingans Sisters, you quickly become aware of just how apposite this...
In terms of nailing your colours to the mast, Lee Ingram – aka Franc Lee – has not only banged...