indie albums
Album Review: Steven Page – Discipline: Heal Thyself, Pt. II
Sometimes the most unexpected thing can catch your attention and send you down an avenue and into a field of knowledge that you ever thought you’d end up in. A few weeks ago I heard the recent Steven Page single “White Noise” for the first time, and I really enjoyed it. Minimal research revealed that …
Album Review: B.C. Camplight – Deportation Blues
Quite why B.C. Camplight’s How to Die in the North didn’t capture the attention of the music buying public is something of a puzzle. Luxuriant in its arrangements, with a firm grasp of arrangements that recalled the classic pop of the past yet sounded utterly contemporary, and with distinct whiff of someone who understood and …
Album Review: Half Man Half Biscuit – No-One Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get Your Fuckin’ Hedge Cut
Fourteen albums in, and those who have not followed their thirty four year career might expect Half Man Half Biscuit to be showing signs of cultural irrelevancy. That is to miss the point of Half Man Half Biscuit though. For nearly three and a half decades Nigel Blackwell and his loyal opposite number Neil Crossley …
Album Review: Pinkshinyultrablast – Miserable Miracles
Pinkshinyultrablast, Russia’s finest export, have released their third album ‘Miserable Miracles’, out now digitally and on vinyl through premiere shoegaze ambassadors Club AC30 (UK) and Shelflife (USA). With vocalist Lyubov recently moving to LA, the band have been exploring new ways of composing and collaborating. Partnered with a line-up refinement, the new material sees Pinkshinyultrablast …
Album Review – Black Moth Super Rainbow – Panic Blooms
That theme song from Silicon Valley? The incredible off-kilter synthpop played on a ribbon? That’s Tobacco – the enigmatic front-man who started life with Pittsburgh’s Black Moth Super Rainbow. Perhaps unfairly overlooked among some circles as another acid-laden, synth driven indie-psych band in the same era as Late Of The Pier and every mum’s favourite …
Album Review: Luke Haines – I Sometimes Dream of Glue
Since departing from The Auteurs, Luke Haines has made every effort to mix things up and carve a solo career as far away from his former band as possible. Kind of a difficult thing to do when you’re Luke Haines; his unique raspy tones identify him immediately. But it’s the contents of his head that …
Album Review: christian fitness – Nuance-the Musical
Andy Falkous seems to be immune to the law of diminishing returns. Nuance -The Musical is the fifth of his christian fitness outpourings. Interleaved with Future of the Left albums, that’s a lot of music in the last few years. Practice seems to be making perfect though -both of his guises have been going from …
Album Review: Josh Rouse – Love in the modern age
Seems Josh Rouse isn’t one for staying still, with the follow up to 2015’s The Embers of Time promising that he has embraced the likes of The Blue Nile, The Style Council and Prefab Sprout, rather than the indie/americana of his previous work. As it turns out, Rouse makes good on his promises for the …
Album Review: The Vaccines – Combat Sports
To be honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect from this album. I like The Vaccines a lot, and it’s easy to forget just how quickly they blew up and how massive they got when they did; they appeared on Jools Holland before they even had a record deal, and “If You Wanna” and “Norgaard” …
Album Review: PRIDES – A Mind Like The Tide Pt.2
Alt-pop duo Prides, from Glasgow, have just released Part Two of their sophomore album A Mind Like The Tide, concluding the story they began to share with us last Autumn and sharing seven brand new tracks for us to enjoy. The duality in Prides has always been apparent, marrying earnest and emotional lyrics with boisterous …