Occasionally a singer comes along in possession of a voice of such extraordinary beauty allied to songs of unflinching emotional honesty that its effect on the listener can be quite profound. Moreover, like all great
Remember Avec Sans, the mysterious duo whose name sounds rather like an avant-garde font and whose music sounds like an ascension to heaven? Remember their incredible electronic reworking of Bon Ivers ‘Perth’ that managed to
North East band The Prison Library’s latest offering “Lovesick” is something a little more than merely a great song full of sweet melodic hooks, driving rhythm and intelligent dark, heartfelt lyrics. It’s also the sound
Oh, do fuck off Manchester, with your achingly cool bands, amazing musical diversity, friendly eateries, and ample free street parking (after 8pm) stop being so darn bloody good and give the rest of the country
Big Wave are on a roll, in the wake of a spectacularly GREAT EP – “The Roots of Love (Come Tumbling Down)’’ and a wonderful free download ‘Dying On The Vine’’ they release their début
Swiss Lips are back! Yup those lads from Manchester with the rather rude name, who describe themselves as “Pop sorcerers, going straight to hell” and who we’d previously described as having “more hooks than Abu
Last time we featured IO ECHO we came out with the slightly bizarre assertion that they’d managed to arouse such feelings of intense joy that we had an urge to “go out and quite literally fuck
Today’s track is from London’s Creatures of Love from their debt EP “Boy Crimes.” Entitled ‘Knossus’ it’s a slow building slice of Goth electronica, where tribal drums do battle with swirling portentous synths whilst frosty
It seems we just cannot keep away from Manchester this week as we bring yet another artist to emerge from a scene that Bella Union boss and former Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde has described as
They may not be Dutch, they may not even be uncles, but Manchester’s Dutch Uncles do have a new single out, the somewhat unappetisingly titled ‘Fester’. We initially read this as” Dutch Uncle Fester” and
If you’re bored shitless with overproduced soulless bland pop, or delicately plucked guitars from sober young men who gaze poetically into the mid distance, as if trying to discern the meaning of life then salvation
We’ve been fans of Blindness since 2010’s “Confessions” EP cleaved our skull asunder and bathed our ears in glorious noise via their intoxicating blend of raw power and dark brooding melodies. This is what guitar music