Track: Buffalo Tom – Lonely Fast and Deep
Boston-based indie band Buffalo Tom have released “Lonely Fast and Deep” from their forthcoming album, Quiet and Peace, due out on 2nd March 2018 via Scrawny/Schoolkids Records. Their new batch of songs, draw from bygone stylistic elements that are sure to please devoted fans. Quiet and Peace includes 11 new tracks, where guitar riffs bleed …
Album Review: Field Music – Open Here
With the release of their sixth album proper, Open Here, Field Music have firmly established themselves as mainstays of the dermis of UK music, IE where all the interesting stuff happens! For those already familiar with their output, then you’ll know what to expect – For newcomers, then this, an album as strong and worthy …
Track: Field Music – Time in Joy
Time in Joy is the lead and second track to be released from Field Music’s 6th album proper, Open Here, which is released on February 2nd on Memphis Industries. Despite by their own admission, with this new album, to be pursuing a less stripped down sound than on its predecessor ‘Commontime’, it’s business as usual …
Album Review: Laura Marling – Semper Femina
By Pete Wilding It bears reminding ourselves – however disconcerting it might be – that Laura Marling has just turned 27. Nine years of unique, personal creativity on a broad canvas have passed since the release of Alas, I Cannot Swim. Critics have always been quick to admire Marling’s maturity, both in song and in …
Obituary: Chuck Berry, October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017
Chuck Berry and Rock n’ Roll. The two terms are synonymous for anyone who has ever at least heard of the first. The sad part is that many have not. This is a giant oversight in the history of pop music and one if its most important and essential figures. Most people associate Rock n’ …
Album Review: Sir Was – Digging A Tunnel
That this album by Joel Wastberg AKA sir Was is his debut album as a solo artist is almost inconceivable, accomplished that it is.His background as a multi-instrumentalist gun for hire for the likes of José Gonzalez (both in solo guise and as a member of Junip) appears to have been a catalyst to finally …
Album Review: Imelda May – Life. Love. Flesh. Blood.
New Year, New Imelda. Imelda May has kicked off her new year with a new album and a new look since the divorce from her husband of eighteen years. Gone is the almost caricature-Rockabilly look and sound of her top-three album, Tribal, and earlier releases that created a striking signature of the Dublin born singer. …
Meet: Sir Was
If you’ve been listening to the radio at all in the last few weeks, you’ll have heard Sir Was. If there’s a catchier slice of white soul/funk than his recent single ‘In the Midst’ released this year (yes, year) I’ll be amazed. Ahead of the release of his debut album, Digging a Tunnel, out this …
Track: Alexander Wolfe – I can’t get to sleep
By Pete Wilding Alexander Wolfe has really dig deep for the first teaser from his yet-to-be announced fourth solo album, a raw but thoroughly engaging testimony of the debilitating effects of depression. If that sounds, well, a little depressing, Wolfe manages a kind of musical oxymoron – the difficult, important subject matter leavened by an …
See: Hippo Campus release video for Way it goes
By Mary Long The hippocampus is apparently quite a vital component of the brain, involved in the transference of short term memories into long term storage solutions, and in the area of spatial memory which aids navigation. ‘Hippo Campus’ on the other hand are a four piece indie rock band from Minnesota who are on …