TRACK: Jim Clements – Not a Lot of Blood
Hugely under-heralded Canadian songwriter Jim Clements issues the fourth of his highly occasional albums -A Failure – next month. Not A Lot of Blood is the first track released to…
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Matt H
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Sheffield. Occasional gig-goer. Enthusiast, not critic.
Album Review: Battery Operated Orchestra – Snare
Battery Operated Orchestra might hail from Brighton but, in a previous incarnation as Katsen, they emerged on Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation. Which seemed very appropriate even then given the quality…
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Album Review: Modern Studies – Welcome Strangers
Modern Studies’ first album was a lovely pastoral piece of folk-pop, built up around the sound of an old harmonium. Since then seemingly every hipster-Adam-Boyle-type has got themsleves a harmonium,…
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Track: Celestial North – Illuminate Yourself
One song at a time, Celestial North is slowly quietly building a lovely collection of heart-liftingly elegiac and pastoral indie-rock tunes. Illuminate Yourself is the third of them and well…
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Album Review: christian fitness – Nuance-the Musical
Andy Falkous seems to be immune to the law of diminishing returns. Nuance -The Musical is the fifth of his christian fitness outpourings. Interleaved with Future of the Left albums,…
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Album Review: Adam Stafford – Fire Behind The Curtain
Oh bollocks. I lack the vocabulary to do justice to this record. Any knowledge of minimalism I have is, well, minimal. That BBC4 documentary a few weeks back was enough…
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Live Review: Handsome Family – Plug Sheffield 19.03.2018
Poor Rennie Sparks. Snowed in the previous day at a carvery somewhere outside Barnsley, only to find that the rearranged gig was in Britain’s coldest venue. She shuffled onstage a…
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Track: Ryley Walker – Telluride Speed
Telluride Speed is a track from Ryley Walker’s second album Deafman Glance which is out on 18th May and edges his anti-folk strumming to a jazzier place. You can order it…
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Track: Josh Rouse – Salton Sea
Salton Sea is the third track to be trailed off Josh Rouse’s forthcoming album Love In The Modern Age due out on 13th April [order here]. Billed as 80s influenced,…
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Track: Stephen James Adams and the French Drops – Bad Apples, plus album and tour news
The rather ace Stephen James Adams has recruited a new band to back his wearily tuneful songwriting. His first collaboration with the French Drops will see the light of day…
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