Turin Brakes - Dark On Fire

Turin Brakes are a band I love dearly, but one that could be referred to as 'Marmite' by other people.  I get the impression that you either love them or you're not that fussed.  This...

New Music Round-up

'New music round-up #19 brings you six more sweet new sounds from Joni Fatora, Life is Better Blonde, Lilith Ai, Hannah in the Wars, Vuurwerk, and Young Empires, '

New Music Round-up

We've been away. We're back. Sort of. We checked our mail bag; it was overflowing with music. And so begins again the new music round-up, with tracks from Dead Cockroach, Willie J Healey, Janice Prix,...

Harriet Little - America

Recorded in one take, with a tender intimacy, the occasional instrumental creaks that frame America could equally be the sound of a heart breaking, over and over.

The Bluetones - A New Athens

The sixth studio outing from The Bluetones sits very nicely in this category: on its release in May 2010 it didn't even chart in the Top 200. The lack of interest seemed to be the...

Modest Mouse - Strangers To Ourselves

Eight years on from We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank, Modest Mouse return with Strangers to Ourselves. Was it worth the wait, or does it leave fans wanting more?

Piano Day Playlist

In case you missed it, last Sunday was Piano Day, an idea dreamed up by the supremely gifted Nils Frahm. It was a day for celebrating the grandest of all the instruments and also, it...

New music playlist 2015//13

'The new music playlist for week 13 covers another pretty fantastic week of new releases across the usual wide spectrum of styles and sounds: from electropop to indie rock, from electronica to freak folk, RRP...

Idea The Artist - Seafloor

Seafloor was the last of three singles released in advance of an album of the same name on March 24th by singer-songwriter Inés Beltranena, as Idea The Artist. Using the seafloor as a metaphor for...

Lisa Alma - Fine

Due for release next week, Fine is the latest single from Danish alt pop singer and song-writer Lisa Alma. Another track taken from her forthcoming album Sweater, it's further evidence that Alma is one of...

Happiness is hard to pin down

Last Friday was International Day of Happiness. In case you missed it while you were doing your best to stay ahead in the nasty, brutish, but never quite short enough rat race I've put together...

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Step Brother City

Step Brother City is the new single from the lengthily but brilliantly named Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Taken from their forthcoming album The High Country. It's a solid roller-coaster ride of power pop...

Beach Baby - Bruise

Bruise is the flipside to the frankly fantastic and song of the year contender (and so soon, too!), Ladybird, by Beach Baby. It rounds out a very impressive debut release for the London-based band.

Femme - S.O.S

After a hat-trick of stellar singles from Femme, here comes a fourth in the shape of S.O.S. More brilliance, more big chorus, more production magic, more reason to love Femme before everyone else discovers her....

Slug - Greasy Mind

Greasy Mind is a new single from Slug, the band formed by Ian Black, previously bass player with Field Music. While leaning to a degree on the angular art-rock of Field Music and its already...

Strangely Alright - Come On

The latest single from Strangely Alright, Come On fires on all power pop cylinders, in the process creating a rollicking kind of drive that's got a little bit of Feeder about it.

Cotton Claw - Grainy

Grainy is the first taste of Volutes, the debut album from Cotton Claw. It's smooth, warm and alive in a way that you might not expect from music created by four producers and 64 pads....

Big Data - 2.0

Big Data, an all-star collaborative electronic music project helmed by producer Alan Wilkis, uses flashy electronics with a dark thematic tone. Big Data portrays a world of paranoia, and 2.0 is its first full length...

Kid Astray - It's Alright

Kid Astray have already charmed us into submission with previous single Still Chasing Nothing. Today, the Norwegian 6-piece have repeated the trick (and then some) with their new single It's Alright.

Ryan O'Reilly - Northern Lights

File under: sounds like one man, is really a band (see also Franz Ferdinand, Richmond Fontaine, Josef K…)