Backseat Mafia

See: Diamondtown bring the chiming, ‘gazey ‘Dream All Day’ from the Nova Scotia waterside

DIAMONDTOWN come springing outta the fertile underground scene of Nova Scotia, where the scene has something of an Elephant 6 thing goin’ on, members freely interchanging and shifting between the…

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Album Review: Various Artists: Hot Sauce 2 ; 14 gems from the vaults of Trojan Records’ labels 1965-1975

Harlem Shuffle are fast becoming one of our favourite labels specialists in killer reggae reissues and the brilliant Hot Sauce compilation we reviewed a while back. They’re back with a…

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Live Review: The Jesus And Mary Chain – Albert Hall, Manchester 18.11.2021

November 22, 2021

I’m not sure who first came up with the concept of the “Classic Album Tour”, whereby an artist plays the whole LP, track by track in the running order, in which it…

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See: Baltimore’s Tomato Flower unveil the woozy, utopian pop of ‘Red Machine’ ahead of their debut EP

BALTIMORE’S Tomato Flower – well, they’re pretty darn cute, truth be told, on the evidence of their debut single, just out now: the bright and woozy, retro-synth informed pop of…

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EP review: Shida Shahabi – ‘Alvaret (Original Soundtrack)’: Stockholm composer soundtracks a short film of domestic tragedy with drone warmth and acuity

WE LAST encountered that Stockholm-based talent Shida Shahabi in these pages just over a year ago, when she released the soundtrack EP for Jennifer Rainsford’s subtle sci-fi short Lake On…

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Blu-Ray Review: The Thin Red Line

While the end of World War II in Europe officially came on VE Day, 7 May 1945, fighting continued in the Pacific arena. Japan eventually surrendered to America at the…

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IDFA Review: Set!

There’s nothing that gets the blood flowing quite like competitive sports, and it’s often the competition that is more important than the sport itself. As a species, there’s something in…

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Track: Piel break out of LA with the sleek, filmic funk pop of ‘Custodian’

AFTER taking part in one of NPR’s essential Tiny Desk Concerts last week, which’ve hosted pretty much anyone who’s anyone in indie music, Los Angelino quartet Piel have released the…

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IDFA Review: A Thousand Fires

The climate crisis is front-page news at the moment with many of the conversations swirling around COP26 centring on curbing carbon emissions. While countries make commitments on dates to become…

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Track: Isla Noon is back with another fine pop delight with ‘I Need To Go Home’

We can all relate to that feeling after long night out filled with excess when you wish you could just press a button and be magically transported to the comfort…

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