Just Watch: Fil Bo Riva – Head Sonata (Love Control)
Fil Bo Riva People can write and sing great songs but add an extraordinary vocal and the whole thing takes on another dimension. For me Fil Bo Riva has this something something to his vocal which lights up a part of my heart. There’s several notes within this single, Head Sonata (Love Control), which just … Continue reading
Just Watch: Meadowlark – Pink Heart
Meadowlark Words: Elena Katrina Meadowlark return with new track Pink Heart and with it a new video. The video is a love letter to the band’s 5 years together. It follows them on tour, chilling, in the recording studio and is a great insight into the duo’s dynamic that is rarely seen. Pink Heart continues … Continue reading
Just Listen: Island – Ride
Island Words: Elena Katrina It isn’t just that Island vocalist Rollo has a mega distinctive voice that makes every Island song instantly recognizable, it’s everything; the song structure, the guitars, the pacing, the waves upon waves of shimmery goodness that sweeps over you from the get go. So you can say it’s safe to say … Continue reading
Album Review: Hookworms – Microshift
Microshift Released: January 2018 Words: Mike Freeman Despite a disastrous flood that wrecked their studio, the morale of the Leeds-based psych-rock band, Hookworms, prevailed and led them to create a diverse and energising third album, sure to entertain from beginning to end. Hookworms have knocked many bricks from their usual wall-of-sound aesthetic, allowing the vocals … Continue reading
Just Listen: Marsicans – Wake Up Freya
Masicans Words: Joe Cockburn Marsicans have hit our ears once more with a fresh tune in time for their headline tour next month, but this one is different. The Leeds quartet have had us falling head over heels for their upbeat, indie pop with a grungey twist, but new single Wake Up Freya is way … Continue reading
Just Listen: Sea Girls – Heavenly War
Sea Girls Words: Elena Katrina The first few times I heard Heavenly War, the new one from Sea Girls, I was a tiny bit nonplussed to be honest. Then every time it came on my playlist I found that I was wanting more, I found I was humming it all the time, tapping it out. … Continue reading
Just Listen: Dantevilles – Blackjack
Dantevilles Words: Julia Grantham Blackjack is the latest single for Manchester Indie pop four-piece Dantevilles. With similarities to contemporary Stockport band Blossoms, and perhaps even the Courteeners too, it is clear that Dantevilles are fans of baggy, Indie, shoegaze, and yet they take these genres into 2018 in their own, fresh way. This band deliver … Continue reading
Just Listen: PLYA – Adrenaline
PLYA Words: Nick Bewes One of the great things about music is that rush you get when you hear something special for the first time. That happened to me when I heard the single Adrenaline from PLYA. Which is the follow up to last years Thinking of You. The trio of Julia Sykes (vocals), Kris … Continue reading
Just Listen: Cassia – Come & Talk
Cassia Words: Joe Cockburn It feels like summer is back as feel-good afro-rock trio Cassia share the third and final single of their Movers & Shapers’EP. Following belters Sink and Out Of Her Mind, Come & Talk completes the three-track release which the band will be promoting through their upcoming UK tour. An incredibly busy … Continue reading
Just Listen: Indoor Pets – So Soon
Indoor Pets Words: Joe Cockburn Formerly known as Get Inuit, Indoor Pets are the same members, with the same songs, just a new name, and their first release under this new guise shows that they bring with them the same lovable brilliance. Fresh from support slots with The Big Moon and Ash, the Kent four-piece … Continue reading
Just Listen: Spinn – After Dark
Spinn Words: Luke Pettican SPINN’s 2017 breezy-pop infused releases saw them garner critical acclaim from the likes of DORK and Tennement TV. 2018 looks like it’s going to be another stellar year for the Liverpool quartet, if their latest release is anything to go by. Their new single After Dark is more sombre song than … Continue reading
Just Listen: Dahlia Sleeps
Dahlia Sleeps Words: Elena Katrina Sometimes there are songs which reach deep inside and grab you emotionally. Blackout by Dahlia Sleeps does just that – it’s a sync dream and I feel sure it’s going to end up being used on something spectacular and propelling them into the stratosphere. Where, I might add, they rightly … Continue reading
Just Listen: Jade Bird – Lottery
Jade Bird Words: Nick Bewes The new year brings the joy of new music and one of the best so far is the new release from the brilliant Jade Bird. Lottery, which is the follow up to her debut EP Something American from 2017, tells the story of finding and losing love. Listening to it, … Continue reading
Album Review: BRMC – Wrong Creatures
Wrong Creatures Released Jan 12th 2018 Words: Nick Jacques So here we are, it’s 2018 and with the New Year up and running we have a new Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club album and does it come with a new direction? Electro or possibly Euro-pop I hear you cry?? Erm…. no it doesn’t. It’s the … Continue reading
The Orielles – Blue Suitcase (Disco Wrist)
The Orielles Words: Charlotte Minnett From the first twang of the protruding bassline and the jingle of the retro-esque lead guitar you will know straight away that this is The Orielles’ new single and if you don’t where on earth have you been? As soon as I saw the word ‘disco’ in the title I … Continue reading
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