In the mid-1980s, it felt like Fiat Lux were on the verge of being huge. A string of fine singles saw them...
Stealing Sheep‘s first album Into the Diamond Sun was an exercise in weird, spacey folk with an electronic sheen. Its follow...
A band of contrasts. Danish five-piece Lowly’s adventurous yet sometimes unsatisfying second record Hifalutin is filled with opposites. Let’s take...
Here or Nowhere, the debut album by Callum Easter, really couldn’t be any more cool if it was locked up...
After the long seven-year wait between Rose Elinor Dougall’s debut, Without Why, and her follow-up, 2017’s Stellular, it’s a pleasant...
There is a live studio version of Heart Attack Man‘s ‘Surrounded By Morons’ from 2017’s The Manson Family album that...
In the building trade, the ceiling is referred to as ‘Lionel Richie’s dancefloor’. It was never completely clear on ‘Dancing...
It’s hard, sometimes, as a writer, not to resort to tired cliches such as ‘Turkish Delights’ or ‘Young Turks’ when...
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Rozi Plain makes music that is an antidote to the shallow business of modern living. Either bundled up in negative...
When ‘Can We Be Strangers‘ heads this album off, it’s easy to be drawn in by the assumption that Jeremy...
If places had soundtracks, what would they be like? The question is drawn to our attention by the release of...
You know what there’s not enough of in pop music? Albums about medieval bestiaries. These books described various animals and...
Hurtling towards being one of the most important bands around, Fontaines DC. Their demeanour is nonchalant, but the music is...
Change is inevitable. Yet it’s more shocking and traumatic when these dramatic changes affect treasured childhood memories. After a sudden...
Fugues is an album to be forgotten about. This isn’t intended in the sense of an unmemorable album – rather,...
