Julia Jacklin, Manchester Soup Kitchen
Scour the lyric sheet of Julia Jacklin‘s debut album blind and you’d fancy a life lived longer, certainly, if not richer. But the Australian, in her mid-twenties [...]
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Jess Williamson – Manchester Gullivers
Jess Williamson sits, checks the tuning of her guitar, takes a sip of her wine, and begins to sing. ‘Say It’, her stinging opener, is a blackened thing in its [...]
Kristin Hersh – Wyatt at the Coyote Palace
“Our lives get itchy, we peel ’em off, start over. Like Wyatt says, crossing a threshold and starting a new life.” The third in Kristin Hersh‘s [...]
Evans the Death – Vanilla
Last year’s excellent Expect Delays marked them out as developing contenders. With album number three, Evans the Death afford themselves a moment of wry reflection. That [...]
Nerina Pallot – Manchester Gorilla
“I have to tell you, Manchester – I’m slightly shit-faced.” That’s just four songs in: heroic by anyone’s standards. Nerina Pallot grins, shrugs, [...]
Lush – Hackney Oslo
Just hours before her band play their first show in twenty years, Emma Anderson perhaps speaks for them all when she tweets her pre-gig state of mind: [...]
Woodpigeon – T R O U B L E
Clued-up observers of a certain vintage may just make a dash for Mark Andrew Hamilton’s sixth album in his Woodpigeon guise based purely on the presence of his fellow [...]
Brave Timbers – Hope
Multi-instrumentalists Sarah Kemp and Andrew Scrogham take time out from their various musical adventures (including a stint in Lanterns on the Lake) to combine their [...]
Flowers – Everybody’s Dying To Meet You
Second album from the London-based trio turns its nose up at the kind of unthinking labelling usually reserved for anyone in possession of a pair of DMs and chiming, [...]
Various – Still In A Dream: A Story Of Shoegaze
Fucking shoegaze. Bleurghh. Kids, seriously, take it from those of us who were there. We never ever called it that. Whether it was a late night 20/20-fuelled (ask your dad) [...]
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