Noah and The Whale: Heart of Nowhere – review
Noah and The Whale’s Heart of Nowhere is the soundtrack to growing up, it’s all about coming of age recounted through sweet pop hooks and orchestral scores. It’s unsurprising therefore to find an element More...
Frank Turner: Tape Deck Heart – review
Frank Turner’s new album Tape Deck Heart is a lengthy 18 songs, his longest album so far. However, the quality is by no means diminished, and there is enough variety. It’s definitely less of a solo project than More...
Palma Violets: 180 – review
Palma Violets have recently caused a stir in the music world with the band bursting onto the scene with debut album 180. Being hailed as the next big thing in indie music, the album does display the potential of More...
Suede: Bloodsports – review
In terms of 90s nostalgia, pulling off a comeback in the last few years hasn’t been thought of as much in the way of originality. Pulp are back. Blur are back. The Stone Roses… very much here. But in the More...
Sound of the week – Wave Machines
Having been described as everything from electro-pop to alternative rock, local Liverpool band Wave Machines, led by Tim Bruzon, put out their debut album Wave If You’re Really There in 2009 – a couple of More...
Matt Cardle: The Fire – review
After the success of his debut album Letters, a platinum selling record, Matt Cardle now enters the traditionally difficult second album stage of his career. The exposure and fame that being 2010’s X Factor More...
Jake Bugg: Jake Bugg – review
Jake Bugg’s eponymous debut album was released October 15th on Mercury Records. He has so far released 5 singles and earned a lot of media attention for his original sound. His songs with ‘down to earth’ lyrics More...
Blackburner: Planet Earth Attack – review
A variety of dubstep and electro soundscapes heavily influenced by metal and nu-metal, Planet Earth Attack by Blackburner (the pseudonym of former metal guitarist and vocalist Skyla Talon) combines the melodic More...
Focus: X – review
Progressive rock at its best: avant-garde, chaotic and yet tensely atmospheric. X, the most recent album from Dutch art-rock supremos Focus, has a song for every occasion. From flute jazz-metal to organ ballad, More...
Cosmo Jarvis: Think Bigger – review
If there’s any word to describe Jarvis and his music, it’s definitely “unique”. Whilst his past three albums have been praised by a number of industry figureheads, Cosmo Jarvis has yet to reach the illuminated More...