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Bear Park – Keep On Smiling

Only a few singles in and Newcastle garage-indie three-piece Bear Park have already proven themselves masters of the fully energised, jubilant rock’n’roll earworm. Their latest delectable melody ‘Keep On Smiling’ is a charmingly indefatigable rush of positivity and playful wordsmithery, every bit as cheeky and unpretentious as it’s title would suggest. Armed with the essentialsContinue reading “Bear Park – Keep On Smiling”

The K’s – Tramshed, Cardiff – 12/04/2024

There’s a powerful sense of victory in the air tonight. Since the incredibly huge response their debut single ‘Sarajevo’ gleaned back in 2017, The K’s have spent the intervening period slogging their hearts out around the UK’s small venue circuit, living on the breadline and, as frontman Ryan Breslin alludes to later on in theContinue reading “The K’s – Tramshed, Cardiff – 12/04/2024”

The K’s – I Wonder If The World Knows?

Although ‘I Wonder If The World Knows?’ is their debut LP, The K’s are no johnny-come-lately chancers (regardless of what their 2023 song title may indicate), grabbing the attention of clued in onlookers way back in 2017 with their startling first single release ‘Sarajevo’. As would be expected of a 7 year old song, ‘Sarajevo’Continue reading “The K’s – I Wonder If The World Knows?”

The Libertines – All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade

Safely away from the dank early 2000s tenements of London’s East End and closer to home than the Thai setting of ‘Anthems For Doomed Youth’, The Libertines fourth album ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ sees the four dapper carousers holed up inside their Albion Rooms hotel and recording studio in Margate, an outpost cornerContinue reading “The Libertines – All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade”

em koko – Take me as I am

‘Take Me As I Am’ doesn’t exist in the standard 3D tangible world that the rest of us mortals live and breathe in. You may be listening to it in the here and now, making cogent sense of heavily distorted lyrics about acceptance and safety, but the bass-driven, dreamy melody, hypnotic synths, mesmerising drum poundsContinue reading “em koko – Take me as I am”

Dead Freights – The Fury Tape

To head up their latest cluster of macabre blues rock classics, The Fury Tape, Dead Freights have turned the ‘Shot Girl Summer’ phenomenon of post-COVID sun tans and beach parties inside out with vocalist and guitarist Charlie James dedicating their inverted tribute to: “Sex, dead queens and rotten meat”. On this glam-infused stomp, haunted harmonies,Continue reading “Dead Freights – The Fury Tape”

Fate Of The Sun – UFO

For a little bit, Fate Of The Sun went quiet on us. We thought he was away in his bunker, concocting his latest batch of dystopian fuzz-hop. Turns out he was getting summoned up in an intergalactic traction beam and, thankfully for us music fans, he got chucked back down over by the Wentloog hinterlandsContinue reading “Fate Of The Sun – UFO”

Lisa Moorish – Sylvia

For some undefined reason the world of club bangers and the literary scene don’t, as a rule, collide. Yes, artists like Kai Tempest have put incredible spoken word works to top-quality electronic music but dance floor fillers that use all-time great authors as their muse are thin on the ground. London music scene goliath LisaContinue reading “Lisa Moorish – Sylvia”

WRKHOUSE – Snow

Within a month of putting out debut single ‘Getaway’, North Wales suave-pop maestros WRKHOUSE have come back with another slab of sophisticated vibes. The quartet’s fiercely cool second release ‘Snow’ finds the group working their electronic magic yet again, mashing indie rock with R’n’B stylings, along Tame Impala lines. Synth flashes and throbbing bass createContinue reading “WRKHOUSE – Snow”

Duke Keats – Heavy Heartbreak

The last time we heard Coventry performer Duke Keats was on last year’s sprawling jazz-funk live recorded odyssey, ‘Dirty Glamour’. His latest single ‘Heavy Heartbreak’ is a large-scale departure from 2023’s EP, finding the artist distilling his many varied and wide-ranging influences into an astonishingly ace dreamy radio-made bop. An upbeat summery synth and bassContinue reading “Duke Keats – Heavy Heartbreak”