After 2012’s dark hit A Map Of All Our Failures, The Manuscript – though only a four-track E.P – has been an eagerly anticipated release from the bands devoted following, and attracted many onlookers along the way due to their odd knack of engaging any audience with blatant sorrow and misery circling their songs; it’s almost like musical...
Arising from the under-current of the pop-punk revolution overthrowing music currently, The Front Bottoms despite their giggle-inducing name have amassed a cult following after touring with the likes of Motion City Soundtrack and Say Anything, smashing every venue they manage to get into. Packed to the brim with simplicity, giggles and passion, their debut...
Two years after the release of It All Starts With One, Ane Brun is back with an unprecedented project. Songs: 2003-2013 is a compilation of hits and unreleased material, marking the anniversary of Spending Time with Morgan, her very first album. Coincidentally enough, the first track off both albums is the same, Humming One Of Your Songs. With beautifully...
Three years after the first album featuring new, controversial vocalist Craig Mabbit, This War Is Ours created an audible storm with sexy and sleek chords intertwined with visceral and piercing vocals and smashes of drums; forging a direct path into the forefront of their respective genre, and gently sliding them into the mainstream market once more. Title...
British electronic duo Mount Kimbie consists of Kai Campos and Dom Maker, who formed way back in 2008. After the success of their 2010-released debut album Crooks and Lovers, which made them spearheads in the breakaway genre ‘post-dubstep’, they are due to release their much-anticipated second album this month. Cold Spring Faultless Youth will be...
Little Boots – aka Victoria Hesketh – landed in 2009 with her incredibly catchy single, New in Town, and equally brilliant album, Hands. It’s been a long wait for her follow-up; she first teased us in 2011 with Shake and it’s taken almost two years to finish the album since then. So is it worth the wait? The record starts off slow-paced...
Luísa Sobral, the Portuguese jazz sensation, is back with another album. After the unprecedented success of 2011′s The Cherry On My Cake, her debut album, the 26 year old singer-songwriter now presents There’s a Flower in my Bedroom. This album provides a rich combination of music genres that are pleasing to the ear of both jazz lovers and overall...
May 16th sees the UK general release of the latest Baz Luhrmann movie, The Great Gatsby. Gatsby is the story of Nick Carraway during the roaring 20s and how he becomes a not so casual observer of the lifestyles of the rich and fabulous in Long Island, mainly the life of the newly wealthy Jay Gatsby. As Luhrmann’s filmic interpretation of the novel by...
Instead of previewing their new album and building excitement for fans with a single, Noah and the Whale instead decided to do something a little different this time round – setting their fans a ‘treasure hunt’ by delivering home-taped versions of the album to record stores, which in them contained codes for fans to unlock a stream of the...
Imagine being shrouded in a hazy, confusing but effortlessly cool fog; this is the effect that Teardrop Factory manage to create. The Brighton-based trio release first effort The Topshop EP on May 27th through digital download, but with an added novelty of only 300 copies available on 7” vinyl, via independent label Faux Discx. Teardrop Factory describe...
Those lads from Leeds are back with their first album in two years. With predecessor Up, Guards And At Em! Not receiving as much critical acclaim as previous efforts Emergency and Wait For Me, The Pigeon Detectives have removed their polished gloss from their indie-rock hits to aim for something more raw and real, perhaps in the hope it will place them...
Tricky is back with his ninth album, released on his own, recently launched record label False Idols. The album, also entitled False Idols, has been heralded to be a return to the style of his critically acclaimed debut album Maxinquaye, released in 1995. Bristol-born Tricky is known for his dark, moody and layered sound as well as his distinctive...