Half Waif – See You At The Maypole: Album Review
Prolific dream-pop exponent, Nandi Rose – aka Half Waif – comes to terms with personal tragedy and achieves redemption (kind of) on her sixth album, See You at the Maypole
Various Artists – No Songs Tomorrow (Darkwave, Ethereal Rock, and Coldwave 1981-1990): Album Review
No Songs Tomorrow is a superbly curated box set celebrating the first wave of artists who pioneered the darkwave and coldwave genres.
Public Service Broadcasting – Albert Hall, Manchester: Live Review
Public Service Broadcasting achieve lift off in Manchester as they bring The Last Flight, with all the trimmings, to Manchester.
Razorlight – Planet Nowhere: Album Review
Razorlight are back with their first album in six years, following the release of the 2018 album Olympus Sleeping.
Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne – Play Up The Music: Album Review
When coals from Newcastle mingled with sugarcane in Bridgetown, this is what they sang, brought back to Blighty by B-K, in a tour de squeezy force.
Afro Celt Sound System – Ova: Album Review
“A fulfilment of the late Simon Emmerson’s life and work”. The words of Afro Celt Sound System and indisputably the truth.
Flamy Grant – CHURCH: Album Review
Christian music without judgement, hypocrisy, fire or brimstone – CHURCH, the eagerly awaited sophomore album from North Carolinian drag queen, Flamy Grant sets out values for a better world.
Chloe Matharu – Sailors & Rolling Stones: Album Review
Incorporeal blend of icy harp and crystalline vocals meet muted electronica to challenge perceptions, possibilities and genre.
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere: Album Review
Blood Incantation return with a genre smashing new album that will go down in history as one of the greatest metal records, ever. It’s a bold statement befitting of Absolute Elsewhere.
Chat Pile – Cool World: Album Review
Cool World is the second album from Chat Pile and sees them going from strength to strength expanding and furthering their brutal sound into a relentless and distinctive full body of work.
Magnetar – There Will Be No Peace In My Valley: Album Review
Album number one from Magnetar shows the talented trio melding plenty of influences into one humongous beast of a record.
Johnny Foreigner – How to Be Hopeful: Album Review
Ambitious, engaging and utterly unpredictable. Birmingham indie-rock heroes Johnny Foreigner are back again – and they’ve got something to say.
The Lost Notes – Good Luck Shoes: Album Review
Accomplished 3rd album from Brummie Americana hotshots The Lost Notes – ten new songs that tell tales of the wary, the loved, the wild and the lost.
Goat – Goat: Album Review
And they just keep getting better! Swedish psych-funksters, Goat, mix a monster mash of musical motifs on their eponymous 6th album.
Various Artists – Highlands: Album Review
Bathtime never sounded so good, as Lush launch the latest (and the last) of their Simon Emmerson helmed Celt Soundsystem, featuring Julie Fowlis.