Album & Live Review: LUMP – Band On The Wall, Manchester
Last Sunday night, a tribe of Manchester’s most keen and curious residents overlooked the bellowing sunshine and flocked towards the darkest room in the...
Live Review: The Staves – Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn
Fresh off the release of their new EP Sleeping In A Car, The Staves are now touring the U.S. The studio release blew my mind...
Review: Villagers – {Awayland}
Villagers’ 2010 debut album Becoming A Jackal garnered Conor O’Brien and his bandmates a Mercury nomination, an Ivor Novello Award, widespread critical acclaim and...
Review: Daughter – St. Philip’s Church, Salford
On a cold, wintery evening, a select few trudged through the snow to St. Philip's Church in Salford, to take their pews in the...
Live Review: Flock Of Dimes – Rough Trade, NYC
When Baltimore, Maryland native Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak) pulled up to Rough Trade NYC last week, she was pleasantly surprised by the towering sight...
Live Review: Bryde – Think Tank Underground, Newcastle
Bryde, you may recognize as one half of the group Paper Aeroplanes, but Sarah Howells has stepped out of the duo to bring us...
Review: Fionn Regan – Bunkhouse Vol 1: Anchor Black Tattoo
Fionn Regan’s fourth album sees another shift in approach. From his beguiling Mercury Music Prize nominated 2006 debut, The End Of History, through the...
Live Review: Cloves – Omeara, London
What a night this was to be. Firstly, Cloves was down for her first headline London show and then Jade Bird was announced as...
Review: Nick Mulvey And Laura Marling – The Lowry, Salford
On a fresh and Autumnal evening, as September (and Summer pretty much) drew to a close, ex-Portico Quartet member and now solo singer-songwriter Nick...
Review: The Wooden Sky – Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon...
Three in the morning is still my favourite time of day. Even as I get older and my bed starts to call to me I cannot...