Steven James Adams – Old Magick
With the new album from Steven James Adams, there’s a thread of tone and topic firmly tied back to his 2002-2009 work with the Broken Family Band – a warm and [...]
Reviews
Lily & Madeleine – Keep It Together
Although the title hints at feelings of doubt or anxiety, the third album in four years from Indianapolis’ Lily and Madeleine Jurkiewicz shows no sign of artistic [...]
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 [...]
The Listening Post: album round-up
Get past the somewhat awkward name and Berlin’s I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream offer a solid continental take on introspective indie rock. Vocalist Bastian [...]
Zeitkratzer: Stockhausen – Aus Den Sieben Tagen / Kore
I approached Zeitkratzer only last year – and was delighted to experience near instant revelation as the ensemble’s acoustic rendering (via amplification) of the [...]
Various – Rock For Recovery
When Storm Desmond reached land back in December, even the most pessimistic of forecasters failed to predict the devastation to come. With the UK 24-hour rainfall record [...]
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, [...]
The Listening Post: albums round-up
Here we are: a fresh dawn and yet another bunch of hopefuls dropping their offerings at our feet – like the cat proudly bringing home a half-chewed mouse – [...]
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) [...]
The Telescopes: Splashdown – The Complete Recordings 1990-1992
There was something dark, sinister even, about the nu-psych sounds of the late 80s, from the stoned paranoia of Spacemen 3 to the edgy helter skelter of Loop, and when The [...]
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