Category Archives: Records

Annie Hardy – Cross Bearer EP

Annie Hardy is not arsed. It’s time to write a new EP? Yeah, I’m just gonna channel it straight out of the ether when the studio time starts. The resultant songs forming the ‘Cross Bearer’ EP are five brittly affecting, humour-laced goth-folk tunes? *shrugs*. And this isn’t a new development, either. Her debut album ‘HeartsContinue reading “Annie Hardy – Cross Bearer EP”

SAHAJi – Future In The Sky

Japan’s love of British rock’n’roll has long been a trope, but the traffic has largely been one way, with planes and planes of young guitar slingers heading east from the UK to make it big but far fewer Japanese songsters getting to make the trip in return. Enter brothers Shotaro and Youshiro Nishida, better knownContinue reading “SAHAJi – Future In The Sky”

Midding – And Then, They Sing

“Heaven is this place” croons Midding singer Joe Woodward, enigmatic and barely audible beneath layers and layers of sludgy beats, mesmerizing keyboards and possibly some guitar (we can’t hear any but he’s strumming on one in the video so we suspect it’s in the mix there somewhere), doling out celestial overtones to some already intenselyContinue reading “Midding – And Then, They Sing”

Liam Gallagher and John Squire – Just Another Rainbow

Rock’n’roll collaborations don’t get bigger than this. Genuinely. Oasis were one of the mightiest rock’n’roll bands of the 1990s, if not the mightiest, and The Stone Roses could take a similar crown for the antecedent decade. There is also the great serendipitous charm that if members of Oasis had not been at the Roses showContinue reading “Liam Gallagher and John Squire – Just Another Rainbow”

Wez King – Officer

On his new single, ‘Officer’, Kent solo songsman Wez King finds himself chased down by the law and desperate to plead his innocence, “Tell me please, I’ve been on my knees, I’m begging you / It must be the clothes I wear, so why d’you stop and stare?”, whilst acknowledging an exasperating tendency to beContinue reading “Wez King – Officer”

Bear Park – Betty

We adore a jangly guitar at Edge of Arcady, and Newcastle boys Bear Park provide joyous jangles in abundance on debut single ‘Betty’, along with an astoundingly addictive reverb-drenched melody. The track sees the up-and-coming trio deliver some heartening motivation to its downtrodden namesake (inspired by a harassed-looking coffee-slurping waitress character off of a t-shirtContinue reading “Bear Park – Betty”

Helen Love – Yeah Yeah We’re Helen Love

Punk rock is all abrasive, rudimentary tunes and sweaty grunting from the (usually male) great unwashed, right? Nah, if you’re going around thinking that then you’ve yet to have the pleasure of getting bonafide Welsh indie mega-legends Helen Love in your deprived earholes. So, to put that right, their original record label, the equally legendaryContinue reading “Helen Love – Yeah Yeah We’re Helen Love”

The Libertines – Night of the Hunter

The countdown to the release of album number four, ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ is hotting up for The Libertines and to close off the start of their 2023 comeback year the garage rock four piece’s latest record shows off their tender proclivities. Largely regarded as an erudite punk group, it’s the band’s moreContinue reading “The Libertines – Night of the Hunter”

The Slackhead Incident – Turtleneck

We weren’t prepared for a snazzy cabaret jazz piano and saxophone foray to meet our off-guard ears when we got stuck into The Slackhead Incident’s latest track, but that’s exactly what we were greeted with, amongst some britpop Pixies-type tuneage and fantastically nimble bass guitar gymnastics. Three singles in and the Glasgow post-punkers have evidencedContinue reading “The Slackhead Incident – Turtleneck”