Hällas – Panorama: Album Review
With Panorama, their fourth album release, Swedish band Hallas offer yet another chapter in their ever growing career. Travel warily in the musical fantasy world they create.
Betty Blight – Wench, Witch Or Motherly: Album Review
Dark and intimate, the debut album from Betty Blight refocuses the perspective around maligned women and reveres our place in nature.
Hen Hoose Collective – The Twelve: Album Review
A pleasing pot-pourri of powered and punchy electro-pop from Hen Hoose Collective to confound your expectations.
Eliza Marshall – Eternal Birth: Album Review
Eliza Marshall adapts and preserves with a spiritually uplifting and inspirational set.
Xiu Xiu – Xiu Mutha Fuckin’ Xiu: Vol. 1: Album Review
Xiu Xiu’s latest full length release sees them covering a collection of tracks from the likes of Talking Heads, Soft Cell and Robyn, bringing them into their own twisted world.
Jessie Reid – Little Sparks: Album Review
Second album from Jessie Reid takes an ethereal journey into the darkness, and emerges having found beauty and contentment.
Catrin Finch – Notes To Self: Album Review
Delightful melodies to the fore with Welsh harpist Catrin Finch’s first solo record in a decade
Niteworks – Solas Na Maidne Live: Album Review
Niteworks leave the stage on an endorphin heavy, dopaminergic high. An essential document.
Robin Trower – One Moment In Time – Live in the USA: Album Review
The guitarmeister crowns a frenetic year. British guitar icon Robin Trower tours the USA – the country that first welcomed him 60 years ago – and shows our cousins that he still has what it takes. One Moment In Time showcases Robin Trower in his live pomp.
Hollow Star – Listen: EP Review
Hollow Star release their debut EP. Listen is a concise, tight five-track statement that smothers the lyrical grief in drum riffs and guitar pedals.
Toad The Wet Sprocket – Rings: The Acoustic Sessions: Album Review
California’s National Treasures, Toad the Wet Sprocket, present a host of intimate acoustic reworkings of their best-loved songs.
Stuart Anthony & Larry Beckett – Though We Have Only Love, The Songs Of Jacques Brel: Album Review
After a series of taster singles, Larry Becket and Stuart Anthony release the full power of Jacques Brel.
Various Artists – Highway Of Diamonds – Black America Sings Bob Dylan, Vol 2: Album Review
Ace Records follow-up their 2010 collection, How Many Roads, with another rake of vibrant soulful and gospel Dylan reinterpretations.
Big Big Train – Woodcut: Album Review
Big Big Train on a fully blown Prog Rock concept album. To lift from their own words, searching for perfection in what could be a masterpiece.
Mon Rovîa – Bloodline: Album Review
Afro-Appalachian? Soulgrass? It’s all just joyous acoustic music sans frontières from Mon Rovîa , and just the job to nip the winter chill.