My Kind Of Town: Pillow Queens on Dublin
Exeter’s Specialist Subject Records have been quietly accumulating a roster of some note lately, with acts such as Muncie Girls and Great Cynics increasingly pulling in [...]
Features
The return of Twin Peaks: Lemuria interview
Back – way back – in the midsts of time, we used to publish a little Twin Peaks fanzine/newsletter thing; a youthful endeavour that not very many people read but which [...]
The return of Twin Peaks: John Thorne interview
Back – way back – in the midsts of time, we used to publish a little Twin Peaks fanzine/newsletter thing; a youthful endeavour that not very many people read but [...]
Bass No Treble: The Lucid Dream interviewed
There’s more than a pinch of truth in the idea that to prove yourself, you need to get a little distance from those closest to you. Win over strangers and you might [...]
Much Too Much: the Curse of the Double Album
The history of recorded music has been one of continuous expansion of the capacity of the medium. The world’s first million-selling record, ‘Vesti La Giubba’ as sung by [...]
2016 in Music: Staff Picks
Here we are again. Interesting times, and all that. 2016: the year we mused upon the bigger things. Life, death, war, politics. Everything at once, and not very much to cheer [...]
My Kind Of Town: Rosie Crow on Cornwall
Outsider art. There are connotations, usually to do with the state of mind of the creator. But it can also be simpler than that. Rosie Crow lives somewhere that’s [...]
Chapter & Verse: Young Romance
Ah… the promise of Young Romance. Their debut single, ‘Pale’ was a teen kitchen sink drama in minature, Shelagh Delaney in under 120 seconds of buzzsaw [...]
In Conversation: Dumb Numbers’ Adam Harding
In August, Dumb Numbers (AKA Adam Harding And Friends) dropped their second album, II. A warm blur of genres and sounds, the album built on the expansive template of the [...]
Oasis’ ‘Be Here Now’: What Happens When You Run Out Of Dreams?
I feel nothing but affection for the Oasis of 1993-1997. It was refreshing, at the time, to hear songs of gentle hope and fortitude that spoke to any small town/inner [...]
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