indie albums
Album Review: Wovoka Gentle – Start Clanging Cymbals
“We felt we wanted a really hard-hitting intro track that makes you go, ‘woah, what is this record?’” says Imogen Mason of Wovoka Gentle, who along with twin sister Ellie and her husband Will Stokes who make up the band, before adding “It feels to us like a declarative statement about what the album is …
Album Review: Spear of Destiny The Albums 1983-1985 Box Set
Cherry Red June 2019 By Leggy Mountbatten Spear Of Destiny The Albums 1983-85 After the successful reissues of the Theatre Of Hate albums, front man Kirk Brandon`s Spear Of Destiny get the box set works from Cherry Red. After the demise of TOH in 1983 Brandon and Stammers the two main parties formed Spear Of …
Album Review: Meursault – Crow Hill
Crow Hill’s songs first saw the light of day when Meursault put them out on a limited digital release about 18 months ago under the name Fuck Off Back To Art School, promising that they would be fleshed out by perforamnce and a comic strip. Taking a less overtly personal approach to songwriting, the 12 …
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 …