Meg Baird – Furling: Album Review
Reconstructed fables of remembrance; slow and charming, ethereal and angelic from Meg Baird on her Furling album.
Holy Popes – Debut album: Album Review
Gritty, hardcore messaging on the debut album from Bristol post-garage punks, the Holy Popes.
JW Francis – Dream House: Album review
Requests for Valentine’s Day: Gooey musings from lo-fi ‘slacker’ JW Francis on Dream House.
Hayley Griffiths – Melanie / Far From Here: Album Review(s)
Two albums and two sides of Hayley Griffiths, swinging from sweeping arrangements of familiar traditional songs to powerful and symphonic rock.
Thomas Truax – Dream Catching Songs : Album Review
A wonderful kind of strange to catch dreams to. Quirks, strangeness and charm from Thomas Truax.
Black Star Riders – Wrong Side Of Paradise: Album Review
Wrong Side Of Paradise – Album #5 from hard rock outlaws Black Star Riders packed with a confident swagger.
Neverland Ranch Davidians – Debut Album: Album Review
Lo-fi triumph from garage proto-punk reprobates Neverland Ranch Davidians.
Katatonia – Sky Void Of Stars: Album Review
Katatonia continue in their mission of rearranging the order of heavy music. Sky Void Of Stars seduces with more dark rituals of doubt.
Duncan Chisholm – Black Cuillin: Album Review
On Black Cullin, we find Duncan Chisholm moving forward, with new tricks, adding to the splendour of the old, giving the glory of the new.
Archie Churchill-Moss – PH(R)ASE: Album Review
Top squeezer Archie Churchill-Moss goes solo on a largely off-piste black run.
David Carroll and friends – Bold Reynard: Album Review
A collection of traditional style folk songs given fascinating arrangements by David Carroll to whet the appetite of purist traditional folk song fans.
Heavy Metal Kids – The Albums 1974-76: Boxset Review
Rabblerousers, Punk Pioneers. The early works of The Heavy Metal Kids get the Cherry Red clamshell treatment
Faceless Mirror – From The Void: Album Review
The much anticipated second album from Faceless Mirror is finally released with 11 more musical gems on From The Void.
Ross Little – Corrimony: EP Review
Ross Little delights with a new EP that brilliantly brings together jazz and folk, underpinned by some magnificent musicianship.
Rebecca Nash – Redefining Element 78: Album Review
Rebecca Nash delivers a compelling musical vision on new album Redefining Element 78, supported by a fine ensemble of musicians.