Cardiff – Backseat Mafia

Track: Ritual Cloak envelopes us in a delicious psychedelic fugue with their new track ‘Left Behind’ as new EP ‘Vanished in Transition’ is announced.

Welsh duo Ritual Cloak have just announced a new EP entitled ‘Vanished In Transition’ through Bubblewrap Collective Records, and to whet the appetite have released the track ‘Left Behind’. ‘Left…

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Live Review: Placebo / Cruel Hearts Club – Cardiff International Arena, Cardiff 24.11.2022

By Cariad Craig-Hunt Placebo are on their world tour with support act- Cruel Hearts Club and I’m lucky enough to be able to attend their show in Cardiff’s very own…

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Live Review: Pierce The Veil / Carolesdaughter / Against The Current – The Great Hall, Cardiff University 01.12.2022

By Cariad Craig-Hunt Pierce The Veil made a comeback to Cardiff The Great Hall on the 1st of December 2022 for their first ever healing tour. Excitement was an understatement…

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Live Review: Alexisonfire / Boston Manor – Cardiff University Students Union, Cardiff 14.10.2022

By Cariad Craig-Hunt On a cold but warm night in Cardiff (the weather difference inside the venue and outside is wildly different) Boston Manor, a five piece band from Blackpool…

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Premiere: Columbia unveil a delicious portion of anthemic indie rock with new single ‘Glory People’, and announce debut album

We are very pleased to premiere the new single from Cardiff quartet Columbia, who unashamedly embrace a late nineties baggy madchester ethos in their glorious new anthemic track ‘Glory People’.…

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Track: Inland Murmur release the exquisite ‘Freshwater’: vibrant dream pop with a steel spine.

Cardiff’s Inland Murmur drew our attention with the release of their delicate and fragile single ‘Waterline’ last month (read my review here), and the duo is back with another aquatic…

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Track: Cardiff’s Inland Murmur release the delicate and fragile ‘Waterline’

The intricate layers and wistful air of ‘Waterline’ creates a delicately organic piece of music that is ethereal and dreamy. Created by Cardiff band Inland Murmur, the result is something…

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Track: Ritual Cloak – ‘White Noise’: an elegy for a friend in cooltempo electronica

CARDIFF duo Ritual Cloak is the meeting of Daniel Barnett, formerly of Samoans, and drummer and producer Andrew Sanders, in which musical space between them they find some pretty beguiling,…

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TRACK: Ritual Cloak – ‘Opaque Crater’: brooding post-rock soundscapes from Cardiff

CARDIFF duo Ritual Cloak is the meeting of Daniel Barnett, formerly of Samoans, and drummer and producer Andrew Sanders, in which musical space between them they find some pretty beguiling,…

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TRACK: HMS Morris – ‘Myfyrwyr Rhyngwladol’: intelligent artpop asks we all look outwards

HMS MORRIS are a rather fine art-rock collective operating out of the Welsh capital; the project of former Emmy the Great bassist Heledd Watkins, they’ve since developed a whole ethos,…

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