Solange – A Seat At The Table (Columbia Records)
By Lizzie Irwin A Seat At The Table, Solange’s third album is a bittersweet diary of black existence in 2016. It’s soulful R&B is relatively minimalistic when compared with the already sleekly (Dev Hynes aka Blood Orange) produced 2012 True EP. The production is delicate but the messages are heavy-handed, stirring and vital in a […]
Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition (Warp)
By Lizzie Irwin Danny Brown sounds like no other rapper from his hometown Detroit, fuck, he sounds like no other rapper, period. And when Danny Brown reveals he’s releasing an album called Atrocity Exhibition (which takes its namesake from a Joy Division song/J.G Ballard novel of the same name) on Warp Records – the same […]
“I Just Want To Stay Excited”: An Interview with the Goon Sax
By Hayley Scott. “I want people to think about me”, sings a wistful Louis Forster on the title track of The Goon Sax’s candidly self-deprecating LP, Up To Anything. The album deals in subjects that pertain to certain kind of world-weary adolescence that’s never cynical nor maudlin. Instead, it’s presented with a wide-eyed excitement that […]
Live! – Belly @ Ritz, Manchester, 17 July 2016
Reprinted with permission from Toby Goodwin of musicgigsnthings. It was over twenty-three years ago that I first saw Belly live. To be exact it was Saturday 13th February 1993. At Wulfrun Hall in Wolverhampton. The Cranberries were also on the bill. I’ve still got the ticket and more importantly, the t-shirt I bought at the […]
Live! Skating Polly @ Moon Club Cardiff, Wed 15th June 2016
Words and photos by Toby Goodwin. Reprinted with permission from Musicgigsnthings. Skating Polly’s first performance was at a family Halloween party in 2009. Well they were only 9 and 14 at the time. Now in 2016, after supporting Babes In Toyland last year and with the recent release of their fourth album “The Big Fit”, […]
Hinds + The Creases + Tempura Nights @ The Foundry, 07.05.2016
By Sebastian Keim Tempura Nights start out like a band born in an era when reverb was cheap – simple three chords patterns and a haze of guitar recalling the early days of Best Coast, Wavves and all those other bands that have faded in my memory like the faded polaroids of Californian beach scenes […]
The Stranglers @ Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 20.04.2016
By Venita Munir It’s been over a decade since I last saw legendary punk outfit The Stranglers play, so it’s with keen interest that I rock up at Melbourne’s Corner Hotel to see them in their most recent incarnation. The gig is a sell-out, the crowd mainly middle-aged men. I wonder how many used to […]
The Decemberists @ Hamer Hall, Melbourne, 29.03.2016
By Venita Munir For the second time in a month I find myself ‘down by the water’ for a show at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall, and for the second time in a month, it’s not to see the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. First it was Calexico, now The Decemberists, an indie folk-rock band from Portland, Oregon. Being […]
The Field – The Follower (Kompakt)
By Athanasios Lazarou Axel Willner, aka “The Field”, lives in a world where language is not recreational. His latest album The Follower is an album of semiotics; six tracks comprise sixty minutes of minimal techno as traces of communications laced with ambient rhythms – looped and largely unadorned – that are never solved but continually […]
Beloved Elk – Close (Listen Records)
By Nick Kennedy It’s weird listening to Beloved Elk for me these days, purely because of how formative of a band they are at a personal level. I remember back in the empty band room of the Barley Corn Pub on Johnston Street of all places, watching front-woman Amy Wright dish out intimate, soul-tearing acoustic […]
