Maria Turauskis | MTTM - More Than The Music

Dec 10, 2010

New Artists of 2010

All these artists released their debut albums this year and have enjoyed growing success throughout 2010. These are my stand-out new artists of 2010. There have been so many burgeoning female solo acts over the past couple of years; it could be easy to over-look Marina and the Diamonds as just another quirky female pop act. To do this though would be a huge mistake. Marina has been...

Dec 10, 2010

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To Bury A Ghost – The Hurt Kingdom EP

The Hurt Kingdom is the primary release by as yet unsigned band To Bury A Ghost. Producing self-determined “Art-Rock”, TBAG have here produced a complex, layered and deep release using numerous instruments and effects. There is a definite collage feel to the music; each of the parts on each song sound separate, isolated and developed. However, throughout this EP there is a...

Nov 22, 2010

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18/11/2010 | Caitlin Rose – South Street Art...

My initial reaction when entering this relaxed arts venue was surprise at the audience demographic. Considering that Caitlin Rose is currently doing the rounds as part of the Twisted Folk tour, the scene last night was a fairly typical older English folk crowd. Few people looked below the age of forty, and even fewer looked younger than thirty. At twenty four, I was perhaps the...

Oct 28, 2010

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Wild Palms Interview

With a forthcoming release of a AA side single and a string of UK tour dates ahead of them, we caught up with Lou Hill from Wild Palms to give us an insight into the band. More Than The Music: What a year it’s been for Wild Palms! You only formed in the past couple of years, yet you’ve had a string of festival dates, are in the midst of your UK tour, and have your third single...

Oct 18, 2010

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Imelda May – Mayhem

Mayhem is the second major label album from Imelda May, which was released this month on Decca. May has had a considerable amount of previous success in her native Ireland (her first album Love Tattoo went triple platinum there), but her popularity is beginning to spread, with the first two singles from Mayhem charting in the UK, and a string of dates lined up for her imminent...

Oct 13, 2010

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Mitchell Museum – The Peters Port Memorial S...

The Peters Port Memorial Service is the debut album from Glasgow band Mitchell Museum, which was recently released on Electra French Records. The band are steadily gaining attention throughout the UK indie/folk scene, with October 2010 seeing in the release of their third single, and the commencement of a new UK tour. Mitchell Museum’s growing popularity and generous critical...

Sep 15, 2010

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Stereolab – Not Music

Not Music is Stereolab’s tenth full-length studio album, which is curiously due for release within the depths of the group’s current, self-imposed musical hiatus. Recorded in late 2007, this album was created during the sessions that spawned the group’s most recent release, 2008’s Chemical Chords. Interestingly, however, although these two most recent offerings from the...

Aug 24, 2010

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She Makes War – Disarm

Disarm is the first independent, full-length release by She Makes War, a.k.a. Laura Kidd; multi-instrumentalist, session musician, and some-times singer of The Young Punx. Purveyor of grungy, lo-fi indie, She Makes War’s style of self-proclaimed “gloom-pop” tackles the disappointments of everyday life in a typically matter of fact fashion, revealing and discussing life’s...