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Album Review: Sonic Jesus – ‘Neither Virtue Nor Anger’
‘Neither Virtue Nor Anger’ by Sonic Jesus, is perhaps 2015’s most eagerly anticipated debut LP, certainly for those fortunate souls who take their music with more than just a pinch of gravitas. Few releases have me contemplating the juxtaposition of Platonist preponderance over Aristotle’s ‘Ethica Nicomachea’, combined with Blake’s adherence that “there is no suffering except …
Live Review: Hands Off Gretel – Mine, Leeds 23.04.2015
Fast rising grunge band Hands Off Gretel are in Leeds tonight to play Move, Leeds traffic being what it is I arrive slightly late walking in during their song Be Mine. What is immediately apparent is how they sound exactly the same live as they do on record with Lauren Tate’s fierce vocal like razor …
Track: Dinosaur Crush release new single, Noise
Imagine, if you will, what would happen if you put together a scientist, ice cream maker, computer programmer, defence analyst and an (alleged) future United Nations Ambassador (weren’t we all one of those, at one time or another). Well, imagine no further as Reading five piece Dinosaur Crush is actually that exact combination of talents. …
Live Review: Lower Than Atlantis / We Are The Ocean / PVRIS – Manchester Academy 2, 14.04.2015
Openers Pvris brought a barrage of synth infected pop-rock tracks from their debut album White Noise (2014). Ironically starting out with Smoke, which quite literally was the only thing that clouded over the bands performance. “Can you cut the smoke? We’re not that cool” vocalist Lyndsey Gunnulfsen stated however the intensity of the smoke didn’t …
Album Review: Roisin Murphy – Hairless Toys
Roisin Murphy will release her third solo album ‘Hairless Toys’ on May 12th, but after nearly eight years since her second album “Overpowered’ reached number twenty in the UK album charts I’m guessing a few of you may be wondering who Roisin is; Firstly. it’s pronounced Rosheen, like machine, not Roison, like poison or Wassin’ …
Album Review: Amber Run – 5AM
Amber Run proves to us all that popular music can still be sincere. After releasing a handful of EPs and singles the past few years, we’ve finally been gifted with a full-length album, produced by the magnificent Mike Crossey. 5AM is a moment of clarity in a world full of noise. Whilst you’ll recognise ‘Spark’ …
News: I Am Kloot to play rare club gig in Hebden Bridge
Mercury Prize nominees I Am Kloot play a very rare club date at the Trades Club as part of the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival. Lead singer John Bramwell played a solo show at the Holme Street venue in the Arts Festival two years, enjoying the experience so much he managed to persuade his bandmates Peter …
Track: Spirit Catcher & Raxon ‘Remember To Forget’ Kindimmer’s Utopia Remix; available on free download
Free to the first 500 to snap it up, Audiojack’s Gruuv imprint offers Kindimmer’s Utopia Remix of Spirit Catcher & Raxon ‘Remember To Forget’ just ahead of the label return next week with ‘Superimposed’ EP from Spirit Catcher. Belgian duo Jean Vanesse and Thomas Sohet aka Spirit Catcher have been in the game for over a decade now delivering …
See: Maiians release video for Sionara
With their two drummers, intricate lines of post rock mashed with electronica and arresting live shows we were always likely to like Maiians, and following their debut Tokyo EP and a string of sold out headline shows, the Oxford five piece are back with a new single, Sionara. Opening with these hazy synth lines, and …
See: Lisbon release ‘I Don’t Know’ Music Video
‘I Don’t Know’ is the latest video from Lisbon and it’s a great track to get you in the mood for summer now that the days are longer and the sun is showing. It’s a brilliantly simple premise for a music video – pelting the band with water balloons that suitably serves the song giving …