Live Review: Fatherson – Liverpool
Fatherson Words: Gary Lambert Photos: Gaz Jones What did you do on Valentine’s Night? An overpriced Lovers’ Special from the local steakhouse with a beloved was not on the cards for all of Popped Music. Instead it was Arts Club Liverpool and a double bill of Scottish rock music from Fatherson and Boy Jumps Ship … Continue reading
Just Listen: Annabel Jones – IOU
Annabel Jones Annabel Jones takes an musical, electronic sledgehammer approach to her latest track IOU. The chorus feels as hard hitting as the words being spat. The track doesn’t start off this way though, in fact the sweetness of the vocal and bitterness of the lyrics work spectacularly well in the versus as an eerie … Continue reading
Gig Review: PINS
PINS Words: Gary Lambert Photos: Gaz Jones As I walked up the steps of the venue I could hear the sound of Pink Kink performing their second track and I was disappointed. I had been looking forward to seeing this oft-whispered about band perform and the noise I could hear was a two-fingered salute to … Continue reading
Interview: Sundara Karma
Sundara Karma Words: Gary Lambert Photos: Gaz Jones Generally within the first three minutes of meeting a band you have a good idea as to how the interview is going to go. When Popped Music met Sundara Karma at the end of an intensive tour, as the band’s collective target was to play three more … Continue reading
Just Listen: Kenzie May – Never Find Another
Kenzie May Dripping with honest attitude and subtly soulful vocals comes Never Find Another by solo artist Kenzie May. The track skilfully masters the art of navigating the self confidence issues that people have when they lose someone; a friend, a lover. While musically ahw gives the listener a cross section of genres seamlessly dropped in … Continue reading
Just Listen: Matthew And The Atlas – Temple
Matthew And The Atlas There’s such a beauty to the character of the vocal of Matt Hegarty that I think he could sing me anything, potentially even out of tune, and I’d still feel like I was being wrapped in velvet and sinking into a seat made of marshmallow. The musical landscape is somewhat a … Continue reading
Just Listen: Krrum – Evil Twin
Krrum Evil Twin is the latest track and official debut single from Krrum and it takes me to musical places I’ve not been visiting so often lately and forgotten how much I loved. Deep pounding electro shudders and jerks against such contrast of the earth-shatteringly high female vocal and even against the higher notes of … Continue reading
Free Download: Glass Spells – Rebellion
Glass Spells My latest #SoundcloudStumble comes from California’s Glass Spells, with their forthcoming single Rebellion. It’s dark, edgy electro and packs a punky punch square between the eyes. Even better is they’re giving this track away for free – go grab it while you can! Find Glass Spells on Facebook Listen to and download Rebellion … Continue reading
Album Review: The Wave Pictures – A Season In Hull
A Season In Hull Released 12th February 2016 Words: Julia Grantham The Wave Pictures are a unique band; hear them once and they get under your skin and are henceforth instantly recognisable. They have a wonderfully original talent for story telling and their lyrics are brimming with wit, cynicism, humour and passion. Every song tells … Continue reading
Just Listen: Augustines – Are We Alive
Augustines Words: Gary Feeney During Augustines’ excellent set at Kendal Calling last year, William McCarthy asked the crowd if they wanted to hear a “piano banger or a guitar banger”. Neither are phrases you tend to hear often, but nonetheless, the latter could have been coined just for the band’s new single, Are We Alive. … Continue reading
Just Listen: High Tyde – Dark Love
High Tyde Do you like your guitars to sound angry and to be played fast? Do you like to hear lyrics spat out passionately, drums hit at a ferocious pace and to be wrapped up in a whirlwind of visceral sound? Like all of that but still with a dose of indie pop stitched into … Continue reading
Just Listen: Model Aeroplanes – Something Like Heaven
Model Aeroplanes Hold on to your pants folks! Model Aeroplanes are going to try and get you to swing by the seat of them if you’re not careful, with their new track Something Like Heaven. It’s sweetly seductive with its fast tempo, wonderfully distinctive vocals and the unmistakable sound of a cow bell (which I … Continue reading
Just Listen: Cape Cub – Closer
Cape Cub Cape Cub returns in 2016 with his distinctive soulful vocal in latest single Closer. It’s the heartfelt delivery of the vocal along with the wording which makes this feel gut wrenchingly honest. The soft sensibility of the music at the start adds to the atmosphere when the bass drum kicks in it’s a steady … Continue reading
Just Listen: Girl Friend – Waste My Time
Girl Friend There’s most definitely a group of emerging bands right now who are hitting it right on the head with their 80s electro-pop vibes and Girl Friend are one of those bands. Stylishly synth heavy and pounding, with glorious layered vocals their new single, Waste My Time, basically makes it almost impossible for me … Continue reading
Just Listen: Colour – Nowhere
Colour With broken and disjointed electronics and shimmering guitar riffs comes the return of Wirral band Colour and their new track, Nowhere. The band remain consistent in their perfectly polished catchy electronic-pop with a vocal that that is sincere with a theatrical edge. An edge which lends perfectly with the bands intelligent lyrics and social … Continue reading
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