Few things in life are more comforting than a Teenage Fanclub album and their latest album, Shadows, is no exception. Over twenty years into their career the Glasgow band are still the closest thing that British music has to Crosby,… Continue reading
Of Flight and Fury is the second album from Brighton’s The Miserable Rich and it picks up from where their excellent debut left off. Part of Brighton’s Willkommen Collective they are the most compact and focused of the bunch. Just… Continue reading
Heavy Ghost, the debut album from David Michael Stith, who releases under the name DM Stith, was one of the highlights of last year. It showcased Stith’s sumptuous singing and musical arrangements that mark him out as one of the… Continue reading
The release, or rather lack of release, of Shannon Stephens self-titled debut album in 1999, shows how little music matters sometimes. The former singer with Sufjan Stevens long defunct folk rock band Marzuki recorded the album more than a decade… Continue reading
The Archandroid, the debut album from former stage school kid and Outkast collaborator Janelle Monáe could well be the most eclectic album of the year so far. Mixing orchestral pieces, hip hop, soul, pop, psychedelic rock, folk and even a… Continue reading
Mark Kozelek has released yet another hauntingly beautiful album under his Sun Kil Moon name. Admiral Fell Promises has less of a band feel than the boxing ballads of 2003’s Ghosts of the Great Highway or the sweeping melancholy epics… Continue reading
Dark Night of the Soul is the long awaited collaboration between Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse. Unreleased for some time due to contractual wrangles it was originally intended to accompany a book of visuals by David Lynch. The book was published,… Continue reading
Indietracks, which for the last four years has taken place at the Midland Railway centre in Derbyshire, was perhaps not quite as busy as last year when it had the support of Spain’s Elefant label on the main stage and… Continue reading
Candle To Your Eyes, the third album by Canadian band Shapes and Sizes, has some great moments but is essentially a bit of a mess, mish-mashing indie-rock, Janis Joplin blues, Bristol trip-hop and early 1980s new wave with uneven results.… Continue reading
It seems somehow cruel to criticise A Taste of Truth, the latest EP by English folk singer-songwriter Brooke Sharkey. She can clearly play guitar well, has a good finger picking style and an interesting, albeit indistinct folk singer’s voice. Nevertheless… Continue reading