If you ever woke up fuzzy headed in Bethnal Green after a weekday night spent staggering between various East End bars circa-2005, you may already be fondly familiar with Francophile noisesmiths The Mardous. A smidgen more artrock than the urchin-rock of their mid-noughties kin, after putting out ace single ‘Revolution Over The Phone’ on AlanContinue reading “The Mardous – Tonic and Gin”
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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”
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 Rhythm Method – Have A Go Heroes
London’s The Rhythm Method were on a sort of Streets-like wave back in 2019, the release of their debut LP ‘How Would You Know I Was Lonely?’ superbly finessing their take on spoken word road-level observations over omnifarious multi-tempo beats, after the almost accidental grass-roots success of first single ‘Local, Girl’. Afterwards, save for aContinue reading “The Rhythm Method – Have A Go Heroes”
Everything Everything – The Mad Stone
Manchester future-art-rockers Everything Everything’s latest single ‘The Mad Stone’ is one of the central parts of their forthcoming 7th album ‘Mountainhead’, a record that, we’re told, is a parable for modern times, mellifluously dissecting a society with the sole mission of building a greater purpose sacred mountain, leaving a resource depleted hole left behind forContinue reading “Everything Everything – The Mad Stone”
Gruff Rhys – Silver Lining (Lead Balloons)
Inarguably one of modern Welsh music’s foremost icons, Gruff Rhys has a less-than-earnest warning for his long-serving listeners on latest single ‘Silver Lining (Lead Balloons)’, the second track to be taken from his forthcoming 25th LP. And what warning is that, we hear you ask, above the symphonic piano and scrumptious strings? Well, we’re notContinue reading “Gruff Rhys – Silver Lining (Lead Balloons)”
Half Happy – Say This Twice
Cardiff woozy indie-popsters Half Happy’s latest single ‘Say This Twice’ is part spoken word, part radiant melody and entirely a sublime record about irrecoverably lost love. Rose’s cool vocals give a disappointed but eloquent account of sorrowfully bored domestication alongside Pete’s lustrous, dramatic, Tame Impala-like guitars. Having heaps in common with alt-rock contemporaries Pit Pony,Continue reading “Half Happy – Say This Twice”
Silent Forum – Here’s The Email
In small, atomised, spare bedrooms all across the land, lone office workers log in to check their emails, dripping milk from a bowl of Cheerios all over their duvet, soaking papers on their desk with Tassimo Costa macchiattos as they bustle to show active on Teams by 9am. With post-punk shades of Idles, Sports TeamContinue reading “Silent Forum – Here’s The Email”
Picture Parlour – Judgement Day
Sweeping theatrics are the order of the day on Picture Parlour’s second single ‘Judgement Day’. Liverpudlian frontwoman Katherine Parlour weaves together words with all the witty ingenuity of Alex Turner and the four piece’s dramatic instrumentation has more than a little in common with latter day Arctic Monkeys wide screen vision, or better still FatherContinue reading “Picture Parlour – Judgement Day”
Shallowhalo – Decision of a Flower
NY duo Shallowhalo’s latest track is a succinct crystal glass electro gem. Energized with all the dancefloor dominating prowess of CSS, Ladytron and the electroclash masters, on ‘Decision of a Flower’ producers Allyson Camitta and Ezra Tenenbaum create two tasty minutes of synth-loaded, sludgy beat smothered, worked up excellence. Transposing the act of plucking petalsContinue reading “Shallowhalo – Decision of a Flower”
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