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One can only assume Ethiopia’s gone downhill. The country that gave the world brewed coffee, which along with a nice fag, inspires most of the planet to function on a...

  With virtually no respite, Skint & Demoralised are back with ‘This Sporting Life’: a title certainly stolen from the 1963 love letter to Northernness and rugby...

David’s Lyre release their debut album ‘Picture Of Our Youth’ on a pay-what-you want basis. This alternative pop collection will be the first, and sadly, only offering from...

  “Atmospheric” is no synonym of “dull”.  If there’s one thing ‘Dispossession’ cannot be described as, it’s background music.   Curiosity is...

  Thrust into the spotlight as mere teenagers with their entertaining debut album ‘Overgrown Eden’ in 2003 - the pressure to reproduce this early success, and subsequent...

The first thing that strikes you about Bath quartet Daedalus' Right Eye's debut release is the sheer amount of effort in the package. The album artwork is reminiscent of Mastodon's...

Whilst not every band gets to be a trailblazer, Juicehead seem content to trot out tired cues from familiar influences on album 'How to Sail A Sinking Ship', offering up tracks...

Remember the guy at school that was effortlessly super-talented at anything he tried to do, flinging off Hendrix licks at the first attempt while you struggled to put...

As an exercise in singer-songwriter recordings, Mike Marlin's 'Man On The Ground' offers little that's new. As you might expect from the kind of balladeer Marlin presents himself...

Edinburgh quintet The Machine Room drop their first EP after singles 'Girly' and 'Camino de Soda' met with approval from Radio 1's Ally McCrae and Edinburgh's Hogmanay, who had...

Without the film, a score is a difficult thing to take in. It is a painter without a landscape, a script without the actors. Such is the nature of Ólafur Arnalds' latest project,...

The world of ambient electronica is a difficult one to break into – a handful of canonical artists imitated by a plethora of pretenders, with very few of them managing to mould...

'In The Garden,' the opening track from Glaswegian outfit Die Hard's eponymous debut album, should in all theory lead straight into a wall of indie rock or a kaleidoscope of...

On first listen, this second album from 6 Music favourites is intimate, warm and rather promising. As opening title track (version one) suggests this is the sound of a rather...

In a market filled with female vocalists coming to the fore in recent years both commercially and in indie circles, it is becoming ever so harder to unearth the real gems.  For...