pop
Track: La Bête Blooms – Take Arms
Hull’s inimitable La Bête Blooms are back with a blistering new single and video ‘Take Arms’. This is a rousing punky shouty call for action in the muscular power pop/punk style of that exemplifies the band – fuzzy. slightly anarchic and full of wry humour: Blasting aside stereotypes, commiserating with the general state of the …
Album Review : MGMTs ‘Little Dark Age’
Man, do you remember when Oracular Spectacular dropped in 2007? I don’t. I was too busy in my own crowded little universe to notice a couple college kids from Connecticut leaving one of the most impressive debut records of the naughts at the doorstep of world. But by 2009 I was hip to it. Day-go-colored …
Not Forgotten: Kate Bush – The Kick Inside
A startling debut from one of the UK’s most unique talents, The Kick Inside has since been eclipsed by better received (and better selling) Kate Bush albums, but there is still a section of her audience that maintain that she never bettered her first album. The Kick Inside certainly has an abundance of whatever it …
Meet: Pål Waaktar-Savoy on Savoy, songwriting and See the Beauty in your drab Hometown
Every song is a puzzle. It isn’t often you get to meet your musical hero, much less one who taught you one of the essential tools of being a writer. Pål Waaktar-Savoy is the quiet, talented one in A-ha, who wrote or co-wrote the most of their hits. I was thrilled to meet him and …
See: Paloma Faith reveals new video for Til I’m Done
On the back of her acclaimed number 1 album, The Architect, and with a BRiT nomination for Best British Female safely in the bag, Paloma Fait has revealed a new vide for her latest single ‘Til I’m Done’. It’s smart, sassy pop music that as ever works as a showcase for Faith’s remarkable voice. Filmed …
News: Rufus Wainwright announces run of UK dates
Rufus Wainwright has announced 10 not to be missed UK summer shows. Armed with one of modern music’s best back catalogues, an incredible voice and a between song chat to rival anyone, these shows will be a real treat. The son of Loudon Wainwright III has released eight studio albums including the landmark ‘Want One’,and …
Track: Loose End – Without a Trace
Melbourne’s Loose End have just released a new track – “Without a Trace” – which is a punchy, power pop punk blast that steers away from the mundane. Melding a pop sensibility with a hard core delivery, it is a refreshing twist on standard punk fare. According to singer, Ben Smalley, “The track was recorded, …
News: RODRIGUEZ to play Royal Albert Hall on 27th September 2018
To see Rodriguez live is to see a Phoenix risen from the ashes. No longer just a cult concern, after finding world wide fame and acclaim late in life thanks to the success of the Searching For Sugar Man film and the reissue of his music on Light In The Attic. Rodriguez’s rediscovered back catalogue …
Track: Noah Cyrus – We are…
Noah Cyrus has begun 2018 with a new track, We Are Fucked, featuring MØ and produced by Max Martin. She’s been on an upward trajectory since her debut single, last years Make Me (Cry) with Labrinth, went to #1 on Spotify’s Viral Global Chart within hours of release, and has since surpassed 420 million global …
Track: Erasure – It’s Still Not Over (rework)
In LGBT+ History month Erasure celebrate their role in the struggle with a classical reworking of ‘It’s Still Not Over.’ I don’t know when it began, but there has been an epidemic of classical versions of pop songs recently. Even so, it is very unusual to do it with an obscure album less than a …