Strap Originals Two-Parter: Part 2 – Last Friday, 26th November, Strap Originals released two fantastic new singles – Vona Vella – Rainy Days and Evan Williams – When The Shutters Rise Again, and we’re bringing you reviews of them both. In the second instalment, we bring you Evan Williams – When The Shutters Rise Again.Continue reading “Evan Williams – When The Shutters Rise Again”
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Vona Vella – Rainy Days
Strap Originals Two-Parter: Part 1 – Last Friday, 26th November, Strap Originals released two fantastic new singles – Vona Vella – Rainy Days and Evan Williams – When The Shutters Rise Again, so we’re bringing you reviews of them both. First up, Rainy Days by Vona Vella. Vona Vella’s second single, Rainy Days, is anContinue reading “Vona Vella – Rainy Days”
The Wombats – Everything I Love Is Going To Die
Ever have those moments of complete abandon? When you remember everything and everyone is transitory and you could do whatever you liked because nothing has a modicum of meaning in the grand eternal universe, really? Well that’s what Murph is singing about in ‘Everything I Love Is Going To Die’ and he’s singing about itContinue reading “The Wombats – Everything I Love Is Going To Die”
Miles Kane & Corinne Bailey Rae – Nothing’s Ever Gonna Be Good Enough
Miles Kane has come back with another piano and brass fiesta, a bold, jaunty, northern soul single about beach dates and nervously innocent love, this time a duet – ‘Nothing’s Ever Gonna Be Good Enough’, with Corinne Bailey Rae. On paper, the ‘Put Your Records On’ R&B songstress may not be an obvious feature forContinue reading “Miles Kane & Corinne Bailey Rae – Nothing’s Ever Gonna Be Good Enough”
The Pagans S.O.H. – Emergence Of Forgotten Power
Thousands of years ago a prophecy was made that a hip hop band would be born with a pure funk groove, revealing all manner of suppressed mystical hermetic secrets. The Pagans S.O.H. (That is The Pagans (Shepherds of Humanity)), know they are the foretold harbingers and on new single Emergence Of Forgotten Power they’re onContinue reading “The Pagans S.O.H. – Emergence Of Forgotten Power”
Death Of The High Street – Banker
When the bone-shaking bassline rumbles, signaling the start of Death Of The High Street’s second single, you know you’re in for a treat. Seconds later the drums blitz their way in and so begins a fierce take down of that penthouse elite who’ve never received comeuppance for causing the global financial crash. Vocalist Scott BaxterContinue reading “Death Of The High Street – Banker”
Phoebe Green – So Grown Up
So Grown Up is a tribute to lost innocence and disillusionment. Wavy, sky-scraping synthesisers, the audio equivalent of Green’s bright aesthetic, and a flagellating drum track engineer an aura of poignancy as Phoebe asks a childhood friend “What happened to the boys we fucked with at school? Now you’re in love with a man theContinue reading “Phoebe Green – So Grown Up”
Tom – Mood Swings // Kept It To Myself
Tom (Atkin, singer in Hull punks The Paddingtons, father of Lux and co-host of the 22 Grand Pod podcast)’s low key new single Mood Swings is as tenderly unbalanced as the title suggests. Opening with sparse, echoey vocals and a lonely bassline, the song builds up to become a brooding wall of sound, wonky guitarsContinue reading “Tom – Mood Swings // Kept It To Myself”
Foals – Wake Me Up
If a band were given the title of most vibrant alternative rock act in 2021, it would be Foals. Coming unimaginably far from the ‘math-rock’ label adopted by them on 2008 debut ‘Antidotes’, latest albums ‘Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost’ Parts I & II saw the Oxford boys straddle a zig-zag line between dance-punkContinue reading “Foals – Wake Me Up”
The Skinner Brothers – Put Me Down As A Maybe
Fresh off the road supporting Kasabian across the UK, The Skinner Brothers strike while the iron’s hot and launch another solid tune out into the musical stratosphere in the shape of ‘Put Me Down As A Maybe’. Taking in their tour pals’ fuzzy, electronic squelches with a top Stone Roses/Happy Mondays baggy rhythm gushing throughContinue reading “The Skinner Brothers – Put Me Down As A Maybe”
Edge of Arcady 