Reviews of new music, songs and releases
Only two releases in and Limerick five-piece THEATRE already sound so effortlessly cool and assured, their latest track “You Are” adds another compelling piece of evidence that they’re here for the long haul and only just,...
On their striking new single “Concrete Line,” their debut since signing to label Heist or Hit, Manchester based foursome Cutscene prove themselves adept cartographers, mapping out an emotional terrain that feels both suffocatingly familiar and...
Dublin trio DIVIL tap directly into an electric buzz of reality and personal history with this, their debut single. “Thanks A Million” arrives lived-in, carried on the weight of many shared years and experiences...
There’s a certain kind of debut that feels less like a shout for attention and more like a quiet arrival. “The Fall,” the first single from Limerick five-piece THEATRE, lands squarely in that rare...
If Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine had a baby today, you’d fully expect the resulting offspring to sound like thistle. Merging the combined gene pools of slacker alt-rock and blinding shoegaze noises into...
London-by-way-of-Brighton four-piece Alphabet return next week with “Pressure,” a striking new single that sharpens their growing reputation for emotional intensity wrapped in immersive sound design. Due for release on April 8, the track captures...
There’s a quiet confidence to Jessica Weiss stepping out alone. As the voice and songwriter behind Fear of Men, she’s long dealt in emotional precision, but under the moniker New German Cinema, that instinct sharpens into something colder,...
It’s almost spring in the UK. Can you feel it? After months of storms a dreariness we have have had sunlight peaking through this week. Apologies if your part of the world is still...
Opal Mag stands out in Brighton’s rich crop of musical performers due to her creative instinct for combining “heart on the sleeve” diaristic lyrics sewn together with wonderfully bright melodies. She strikes this winning...
As one of the early proponents of goth and post-rock music British composer/singer and artist Annie Hogan is an experienced hand at conjuring atmospherics and mood from the ether. So it is again on...