albums & eps
Fresh Touch - 'The Ethopian...

by AlasterKirk on 22 February 2012

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...
Skint & Demoralised - 'This...

by ChristopherMoffatt on 22 February 2012

  With virtually no respite, Skint & Demoralised are back with ‘This Sporting Life’: a title certainly stolen from the 1963 love letter...
David's Lyre - 'Picture Of Our...

by MartinStevenson on 22 February 2012

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,...
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...

Fresh Touch - 'The Ethopian EP'

by AlasterKirk on 22 February 2012

  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...

Skint & Demoralised - 'This Sporting Life'

by ChristopherMoffatt on 22 February 2012

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...

David's Lyre - 'Picture Of Our Youth'

by MartinStevenson on 22 February 2012

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

Mike Wexler - 'Dispossession'

by TalieEigeland on 21 February 2012

  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...

InMe - 'The Pride'

by MartinStevenson on 21 February 2012

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...

Daedalus' Right Eye - 'Daedalus' Right Eye' EP

by RobertDillon on 21 February 2012

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...

Juicehead - 'How To Sail A Sinking Ship'

by RolandMcIntyre on 21 February 2012

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...

by AlasterKirk on 16 February 2012

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...

by StephenMorris on 15 February 2012

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...

by AlasterKirk on 15 February 2012

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,...

by RobertDillon on 13 February 2012

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...

by RobertDillon on 13 February 2012

'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...

by RobertDillon on 13 February 2012

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...

by AlexJackson on 13 February 2012

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...

by AlexJackson on 13 February 2012

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