indie albums
Album Review – Froth ‘Duress’
Froth is a band from Los Angeles consisting of Joo-Joo Ashworth (guitar), Jeremy Katz (bass) and Cameron Allen (drums). Together, they’ve explored a range of sounds shoegaze, psychedelia and post-punk over several albums, a steady regimen of East LA house shows, downtown DIY gigs and support tours with alternative rock icons Interpol and Ride soon. After a …
Album Review: Pip Blom – Boat
Although sounding like a singular, Pip Blom are actually a band from Amsterdam, although slightly confusingly, they’re led by the aforementioned Pip Blom (singular again). Through an EP, Paycheck, and slowly becoming 6Music darlings, they’ve created interest and attention that has led to this debut album, Boat, out today (31st May) on ever brilliant Heavenly …
Album Review: Sacred Paws – Run Around the Sun
Out on May 31st is Run Around the Sun, the second long playing installment from duo Sacred Paws, aka Rachel Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers. There were high hopes in this household following 2016’s Strike a Match, and the Paws (as absolutely no-one calls them) have come up with the effervescent goods. Yeah there’s something of the Honeyblood …
Album Review: Honeyblood – In Plain Sight
Stina Tweeddale goes solo and takes inspiration from her fears on Honeyblood’s epic third album In Plain Sight. We all have album releases that make us nervous – that make our hearts beat that little bit faster on first listen. They’re usually from an artist or band that you have high – maybe unreasonably – …
Album Review: Sinkane – Dépaysé
On their seventh album, having a sense of belonging as a London born Sudanese person living in America in the Trump era make up much of the albums focus and indeed much of the meaning behind its title. As the bands Ahmad Gallab says “At some point, I discovered the French word dépaysé, which basically means …
Album Review: Scott Lavene – Broke
Back in 2016 I reviewed an album by an act called Big Top Heartbreak. Deadbeat Ballads was one of those albums where the personality of its creator truly shone through. It was a shame then that it languished in relative obscurity, with even being absent from some of the bigger music cataloguing websites. Its cult …
Album Review: Plastic Mermaids – Suddenly everything explodes
Isle of Wight five piece Plastic Mermaids have taken their time with their debut album Suddenly Everything Explodes, out on May 24th, mixing into their musical cauldron elements of woozy, psych-pop, insightful lyrics and pop culture references, a dollop of humour, fuzzy pop and a string of catchy melodies. What they’ve cooked up is as original …
Review: The Waterboys – Where The Action Is
Following on from 2015’s lauded album, Modern Blues and 2017’s top ten-reaching double album Out Of All This Blue, on May 24th The Waterboys will release their new album Where The Action Is, via Cooking Vinyl. The title track is an update of the Robert Parker classic ‘Let’s Go Baby’ – this is proper full …
Album Review: Madonnatron – Musica Alla Puttanesca
If you haven’t heard London all-girl quartet Madonnatron and you’re expecting from their name some kind of vivacious, day-glo punk/synth/pop thing with subject matter scattered between myths, legends, and things that would make your Grandad blush, then frankly you’d be spot on the money. If lead off single Sucker Punch caught your ear, you may …
Album Review: The North Sea Radio Orchestra feat. John Greaves & Annie Barbazza – Folly Bololey: Songs from Robert Wyatt’s Rock Bottom
Following his retirement in 2014, there are few, if any opportunities to hear new material from Robert Wyatt, though while he remains alive and in reasonable health, there’s always a glimmer of hope, and his canon of oddball esoteric jazz-pop remains much revered and respected within the musician community and far beyond. Save for a …