‘Wake Up’ is a sublime and elegantly sprawling debut from Gothenburg’s Holy Now . It highlights Julia Olander’s yearning, fluttering vocal which at times seems to reside somewhere between Maja Miller of Makthaverskan’s soaring emoting …
What’s in a name ? Yesterday our ‘Track Of The Day’ was from the rather wonderful Yassassin, and we touched on the dilemma of picking an original band name, and today the problem arises once …
It’s can get a bit perplexing this band name malarkey, for example when you pick a name such as Yassassin you’d think it’d be a fairly safe bet. However, it transpires there seems to have …
We first featured Young Summer back in 2014 describing her music as an object lesson in ” how to craft electronic leaning commercial pop of the sort that doesn’t make you want to eat glass …
So impressed were we when we came across up and coming Australian alt-country singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin at this year’s Liverpool Sound City that we made sure we attend both the sets she played there, and …
Punk Slime Recordings ( PNKSLM) are good at this as they unearth yet another gem. ‘First Time’ by Hater unfolds with an unhurried sense of languid grace , whilst singer Caroline Landahl’s throaty yet fragile …
‘Animal Lover’ is a suitably striking and dramatic affair from Suffolk based songwriter Daisy Victoria recorded with producer Dan Austin (Pixies). It’s dark, theatrical but never overwrought in the way say, Florence Welsh over projects, …
We generally don’t post too many covers here, however Pink Flames, the new project of Isabel Spurgeon (JC Flowers/Novella) and Max Oscarnold (TOY), have unearthed a tune which has become something of an underground cult classic. …
As the haunted visage of Tony Blair rattles around looking paler than Hamlet’s father’s ghost, trying to convince the world he was justified, there were many who predicted just what the cluster fuck a war in …
When one door shuts, another opens … as sad as we were to see Liverpool’s much-loved , nay revered Kazimier club flattened by fat fingered f**k funnels/ cultural barbarians, call them what you will the …
angelic milk, (lower case because apparently caps lock is BAD KARMA man ) started out as the bedroom project of Russian wunderkind Sarah Persephona. She was discovered by Stockholm based label PNKSLM who have, over …
2016: End Of Days – “The final dying star flickers brightly and then implodes, the universe collapses into the atramentous abyss as an impassive God looks on – ‘Ah well, it was fun whilst it …