pop
Track: Talay returns with ‘Parents House’
With a departure from her acoustic debut, Talay is back and cranking it up to eleven with an anthem for millennials. Everything from the musical composition to its tone and subject matter all comes together to create a track that’s highly addictive. Musically it feels like a brilliant throwback to pop punk of the early …
Album Review: Imelda May – Life. Love. Flesh. Blood.
New Year, New Imelda. Imelda May has kicked off her new year with a new album and a new look since the divorce from her husband of eighteen years. Gone is the almost caricature-Rockabilly look and sound of her top-three album, Tribal, and earlier releases that created a striking signature of the Dublin born singer. …
See: Michelle Branch reveals video for Hopeless Romantic
With the new album ‘Hopeless Romantic’ on the horizon, Michelle Branch has recently released the title track single and it shows strong signs of things to come. As an artist that has changed her musical style as an expression of self over the course of her career, the latest offering still retains the core components …
Album Review: MUNA – About U
When you’re first introduced to MUNA, you might feel intimated and a little out of depth, but that first impression will fall away the second you realise that these are the kinda girls who will fight with you, not against you. About U is the highly anticipated debut album from the trio, released 3rd February …
Track: Josh Kemp – U.R.
Nottingham singer-songwriter Josh Kemp has returned with a brand new EP, titled A Wonderful World, complete with new music video for the single ‘U.R.’ The EP features previously released songs ‘Imaginary Friend’ and ‘Leap Of Faith’, and is available on Spotify now. “The last 12 months have been pretty turbulent globally and personally,” Josh explains, choosing …
Track: Critics – All I Wanna Know
Dirt-pop band from London, CRITICS, have just released their debut single ‘All I Wanna Know’, introducing themselves to the world with funky pop that holds a sinister edge. The single was released on 3rd March 2017 through their own record label, officially cementing their presence in the music industry and setting the foundations for something …
Album Review: Randy Newman – The Randy Newman Songbook Vol. 3
You know, sometimes it really is just down to the songs. On hearing Kate Bush lavish sounding Before the Dawn for the first time recently, I have to admit, I was impressed, especially given how much improved many of the songs were with Bush’s mature and more lived-in vocal. Something I did ponder on however …
Classic Album: Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna
You almost don’t need to hear Bella Donna to know what it sounds like. Name recognition alone will inform you that this is a solo album by the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman and visual figurehead. There she is on the cover, resplendent in a floaty dress, lofty heels, big hair and brandishing a cockatoo. Oh, and …
Live Review: Busted, Leeds O2 Academy, 21.2.2017
It has been some time since Busted released an album and headed out on the road. The last time around, a large proportion of their fans were probably negotiating a minefield of pre-teen dramas- while some may have been even younger than that. This is to say that Busted were a band that sound tracked …
A buyers’ guide to Kirsty MacColl
Has any songwriter ever been more perfectly human than Kirsty MacColl? Intelligent, witty, wilful, vulnerable, contrary, mind-bogglingly talented, possessing a steely resolve and yet still coming across as approachable and utterly vulnerable, was there any wonder that I was besotted with her back when I was a teenager? Hell, I guess I still am. However, …