It’s enough to make you momentarily forget about Brexit and Trumpmania.
Read MoreListen/review: Chocolat - Les Pyramides
Tangential like jazz, eccentric like Roxy Music - all with a vague chemical headiness.
Read MoreListen/review: Sampha - Blood On Me
If 'Blood On Me' is any indication, the upcoming LP will be one to remember.
Read MoreListen/review: Drugdealer - Easy To Forget
A tactful homage to the sort of pop writing that prospered in the sixties and seventies.
Read MoreListen/review: Soft Hair - Lying Has To Stop
Soft Hair is the brainchild of Connan Mockasin and Sam Dust of LA Priest.
Read MoreListen/review: Hermann Newman - Console Tone
On boldness alone it gets top marks
Read MoreListen/review: BREATHERRR - Chantrieri
Even a cursory listen suggests he’s one to keep a close eye on.
Read MoreListen/review: Les Gordon - Paradise
Continuing in the same unmistakably smooth and balmy vein, Les Gordon offers yet another flawless pearl brimming with ineffable tenderness.
Read MoreListen/review: Anti Pony - Under The Palm Trees
Stockholm’s finest psychonauts return with ‘Under The Palm Trees’ and it feels good to have them back.
Read MoreListen/Review: F. Virtue - Larynx
It’s juvenile delinquency at its best, executed with a mischievous and knowing wink.
Read MoreListen/review: serpentwithfeet - blisters
Rarely does a voice convey naked emotion with this much aplomb.
Read MoreListen/review: Pallas Athene – What I Want
‘What I Want’ is a masterclass in subtlety. Folky lullaby vocals entwine with an unobtrusive synth gently lulling the ears like the soft lapping of a woodland spring.
Read MoreListen/review: White – I Liked You Better When You Needed Me
White are the closest thing to Futurists British indie has: they’re fast, absurd, irreverent, metallic – positively Ballardian at times, but always with an ear for colour that keeps them from straying into murky territory.
Read MoreListen/review: Lucia Fontaine – Lose My Mind
Lucia Fontaine is evidently a hulking rock and roller with a penchant for big atmospherics and a good tune.
Read MoreWatch/review: White Room – Think Too Much
There’s no denying the clean execution of 'Think Too Much', its catchy melody bursting through the kaleidoscopia thanks to complementary stringed fuzz and harmonic basslines ’neath Jake Smallwood’s hardy vocals
Read MoreListen/review: White – Step Up
At a time when bands are sounding hopelessly homogeneous, there’s something deeply refreshing about White’s constant but cohesive reinvention. Latest track ‘Step Up’ is their least conventional.
Read MoreListen/review: Maggie Rogers – Alaska
Maggie has ditched the traditional folk instruments of her earlier work to make the kind of electronic alt-folk that would jam comfortably in the ears of a Sylvan Esso fan. Usually reinvention is a gamble for new artists but she makes it as instinctive as breathing.
Read MoreListen/review: Team Picture – Birthday Blues
Just as you’re beginning to fear Team Picture’s adherence to brute-force krautrock has left them as aggressively inflexible as the Russian football experience, they rustle up a spine-tingling flourish.
Read MoreWatch/review: Goat – I Sing In Silence
The diversity of Goat is what makes them so appealing, drawing influence from African music as well as Spanish and Native American sounds. ‘I Sing in Silence’ brings vitality and freshness
Read MoreWatch/review: The Shaker Hymn – Sucking It Out
Among 'Sucking It Out'’s streamlined chorus and catchy reverbed harmonies is a startlingly spirited guitar solo, whose hue of harpsichordal distortion is one of the components that keeps the listener guessing over the track’s brief course.
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