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18th May

  • Portasound - The Second Renaissance [EP]

    Portasound - The Second Renaissance [EP]

    by Daniel Gill

    If there ever was a movie made of animated kids series Ulysses 31, Portasound would be the band perfect for the soundtrack. For those who know it, the imagery and sounds should rush back to you. And you should now have a feeling as to what kind of music Portasound make. For those of you who have never heard of Ulysses 31, it's a fantasy/sci-fi kids show from the 90's. [read more]

24th April

  • Tortoise - Lonesome Sound

    Tortoise - Lonesome Sound

    by David Zammitt

    Tortoise don't lend themselves easily to categorisation. They rose out of the fertile Chicago jazz scene of the early 90s, but since their debut almost eighteen years ago they have hopped from genre to genre, underpinned by a jazz sensibility that drove them to strike out in unexpected directions, but producing music that could hardly be considered alongside even the most avant garde of the genre, 1998's TNT excepted. [read more]

26th February

  • Yalls – Fantasy

    Yalls – Fantasy

    by Daniel Gill

    It's hard to put a stamp on which music Dan Casey, aka Yalls, makes. When I saw the artist name and read that he makes funky electro, without hearing any of the EP, I immediately thought of the Swiss dance duo Yello... [read more]

17th February

  • Olympians - The Great Gatsby

    Olympians - The Great Gatsby

    by Wil Cook

    The Great Gatsby starts in much the same way as earlier single Foreign Language, a glitchy keyboard drone begins aching through your speakers, but a lot has changed for Olympians since that release. From playing a show with an orchestra, to stripping down for acoustic shows and performing good and loud all over the country with Tubelord. The hard work appears to be paying off, because when you sit and listen to The Great Gatsby, you hear a much more refined and confident band. [read more]

28th October

17th July

  • Catherine Demo Impressions - Hardly Following The Flock

    Catherine Demo Impressions - Hardly Following The Flock

    by Danny Wadeson

    Atlus is a legendary publisher/developer given to totally tongue-in-cheek press releases full of self-reflexive nods to the industry (such as their faux-announcing all future Atlus games would be announced through the ESRB) and generally taking it upon themselves to deliver gaming mana from Japan to the RPG starved multitudes of the western world. [read more]

13th April

  • Brigitte Aphrodite - I Dream Myself Awake

    Brigitte Aphrodite - I Dream Myself Awake

    by Matthew Grundy

    If you've been at a Kate Nash show lately, there's a good chance you've seen Brigitte Aphrodite, and frankly you'd remember her. Comfortably nestled in the cleavage of music and comedy, she rules a world of her own creation: part Ziggy Stardust, part Victoria Wood. Brigitte has acted as tour support for Nash over the last couple of months, and by all accounts has been bowling over unsuspecting audiences left, right and centre. 'I Dream Myself Awake' is her debut single on Kate Nash's new H... [read more]

9th April

  • My First Tooth - Sleet and Snow

    My First Tooth - Sleet and Snow

    by Joe Baldwin

    Sleet & Snow lifts My First Tooth up to the well deserved level that many Folk-Pop artists spend a life time aspiring to achieve. The calm, mellow sound of Sleet and Snow from the Northampton locals, makes you want to pull a stem of ripening wheat from a field and rest it between your lips while leaning back in a hay stuffed wheel barrow watching the sun set gently below a late summer horizon. Although perhaps a touch too wistful and whimsical to make this a nugget that every music fan tri... [read more]

11th March

  • Danimal Kingdom - Vinyl Skipping Ever Backwards

    Danimal Kingdom - Vinyl Skipping Ever Backwards

    by Matthew Olmos

    Nostalgia must be 30 years behind for the generation of 20-somethings. At least, that's how it appears to be based on the wave of 80s retro-fetishism that has plagued a decent amount of musicians for both entire projects and one-offs. Of course, the problem at hand is not indicative of some huge wave of pure 80s sound (that notion died around the time that the term 'chillwave' vanished from the popular vernacular), but rather a more troubling example of fake memories or a mere filtration for ... [read more]

9th March

  • Ladytron - Ace of Hz

    Ladytron - Ace of Hz

    by Heather Steele

    Ladytron may not be a household name, but in the world of electro the Liverpool natives are certainly no strangers to creating their own brand of synth pop perfection that has channelled the way for British electronic fare for over a decade. With their previous albums such as Light & Magic and Velocifero Ladytron have been influential in breaking the mould for new wave electronic music and in turn have created a loyal fan base and a distinct sound. Ladytron's latest single 'Ace of Hz' may ... [read more]

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