We’ll admit our ignorance and state that before writing this review we admit to being ill informed of the Dutch music scene and couldn’t even place Groningen, Real Farmer’s home town, on the map. But since completing our homework our audio world has been brightened up due to Personal Trainer, The Klittens, Frontsector, Youth Deprivation,Continue reading “Real Farmer – Compare What’s There”
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Real Farmer – The Straightest Line
Dutch DIY-punk noisemakers Real Farmer’s second single on Strap Originals is a gloriously ramshackle vitriolic sideswipe at the self-righteously sober. Preaching from the viewpoint of the victoriously misanthropic, ‘The Straightest Line’ uses razor sharp guitar lines, breakneck drumming and frontman Jeroen Klootsema’s Joe Strummer-like vocal bark to put forward the well considered case of theContinue reading “Real Farmer – The Straightest Line”
Andrew Cushin – Waiting For The Rain
Andrew Cushin’s ascendency has been hard won. Since releasing his first music at the start of 2020 and receiving kudos from the elder Gallagher brother early doors, the Newcastle singer-songwriter went on to get a further leg-up from Peter Doherty, signing to his Strap Originals label. Although that may all sound star-studded and plain sailing,Continue reading “Andrew Cushin – Waiting For The Rain”
Vona Vella – Vona Vella LP
A short moment after forming in August 2020, Nottinghamshire based duo Vona Vella launched their debut single, the blissed out, relaxed summer melody ‘Sun’. The record went swiftly viral, bolstered by a remix by ambient tunesters Morcheeba, an unimaginable feat for a group only just in their infancy. So where next to go after that?Continue reading “Vona Vella – Vona Vella LP”
PREGOBLIN feat Peter Doherty – These Hands AKA Danny Knife
Why do boys want to be in bands? And what are fans crying for when they holler at their heroes? PREGOBLIN are fucked if they know, but the boys keep trying to shoot their shot and us fans keep on shouting, ad infinitum and forever. PREGOBLIN is Fat White Family collaborator and ex-The Saudis memberContinue reading “PREGOBLIN feat Peter Doherty – These Hands AKA Danny Knife”
Evan Williams – The Arsonist
Ladies and gents, we have a new hard-hitting, guitar-wielding minstrel on our hands in the shape of Thanet’s Evan Williams. Only three singles into his career, the singer-songwriter has already shown us a couple wildly differing styles, with latest single ‘The Arsonist’ being his most obvious big tune yet, an incendiary indie rock cyclone inContinue reading “Evan Williams – The Arsonist”
Vona Vella – Thought We Were Falling In Love
There is an occasional strata of bands out there with a startling ability to make fiercely upbeat, lively tunes, but when you dig just a scratch beneath the surface the subject matter is actually pretty rough. Vona Vella are one such band, on the days when they’re not making sun-drenched, out and out surf-chill classics.Continue reading “Vona Vella – Thought We Were Falling In Love”
Trampolene – Money
“Whiles I am a beggar, I will rail and say there is no sin but to be rich; and being rich, my virtue then shall be to say there is no vice but beggary”, said the other bard (Shakespeare) about the subject of Trampolene’s new single ‘Money’. The message from Jack Jones, the modern dayContinue reading “Trampolene – Money”
Andrew Cushin – You Don’t Belong EP
Masterful songwriting is a skill sometimes bluffed in the world of melodic indie rock but Newcastle’s Andrew Cushin has authentic composition talent in spades and exhibits it proudly on his debut ‘You Don’t Belong’ EP, an assemblage of tunes so accomplished he even has the famously cynical ears of Noel Gallagher pricked up. Feasting onContinue reading “Andrew Cushin – You Don’t Belong EP”
Andrew Cushin – Catch Me If You Can
The latest instalment from Newcastle’s most touted’s forthcoming debut EP ‘You Don’t Belong’, due out on April 22nd, is sauntering strut of a single ‘Catch Me If You Can’. Andrew Cushin’s inimitable, wordly vocals recount his fascination with “the girl without intentions” – “she showed me things I never should have seen, yeah she’s brokenContinue reading “Andrew Cushin – Catch Me If You Can”
Edge of Arcady 