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Hi. Another week, another Spotify update. Here is the new album by singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore. Enjoy! (Note: Most notable new release will be available for all users tomorrow...
Good evening friends. From a recent Spotify update comes the fine new album by heavy metal band Satan. Enjoy! (UK version here.) (Note: US release date is three weeks from now...
Fain turbo-boosts vintage British folk-rock templates, with muscular, mesmerising results that will have fans of Midlake, Arbouretum and Dungen howling with pleasure.
Upon realising that Wolf People's riff-heavy folk rock has certainly not beam beamed in from the murkiest corners of the 70s, one must surely ask themselves - is this mere...
Hey. The sweet new album by Wolf People was just added to Spotify (for me). Genre: psychedelic rock. Enjoy! (US release date is tomorrow.) Wolf People – Fain Filed under: 2013...
Bill Ryder- Jones left The Coral after their fifth studio album, Roots and Echoes , on which his arrangements hinted at a deeper and spectacular compositional talent. Last year...
Frank Turner records fall into one of two categories; solid front-to-back albums full of memorable sing-alongs and sharp-witted songwriting (2008's career high-point Love Ire...
Art Brut have been called many things over the course of their career, not all of them polite. Over the last ten years, however, Art Brut have been tirelessly working towards the...
It's not irony and it's not rock and roll. It's an overview of a decade's worth of wry pop-punk and just talking... to the kids.
An intelligent distillation of everything that people cherish about British Sea Power and what makes them a truly Great British rock band.
Machineries Of Joy is British Sea Power's fifth album – seventh including film soundtracks. The album was worked up in the Berwyn mountains in north Wales and recorded in Brighton...
More glacial indie that beautifully belies their reputation as owl-collecting kooks
British Sea Power are a band that journalists love, if only for the reason that they give us so much more to write about than music. Let's face it; we're all bored to tears with...
Alone Aboard the Ark is an album that moves The Leisure Society forwards, outwards, and upwards, as a band that continues to grow into their story.
Good evening. I’ve been busy today, but here is the new album by The Leisure Society. Genre: folk-pop. Read this review and enjoy! (Note: US release date is two weeks from now...
"The songs on Tooth and Nail had their genesis in a comment that turned up in my twitter feed sometime in 2011. It said something like 'Getting over break up by listening to...
Let's face it. Punks get older, and with that they are less angry. Billy Bragg pretty much proves that, not to say that he isn't active in politics (he's still very politically...
Kim Ann Foxman rose to prominence as a member of Hercules and Love Affair, her moment in the full Hercules spotlight the rollicking, vibrant “Athene.” Her vocals on the track were...
After an 11-year dearth of new material, Britpop’s pompous progenitors are back from what we’d long feared might be the musical hereafter. More
If ever there were a time for Suede to turn up and remind us it’s worth sifting through hateful politics and brain-melting pop culture for a splinter of brazen positivity, it’s...
Brett Anderson and co revisit past glories for a sixth album full of trademark trashy glamour and daft pop
Hello. The new album by Stornoway is another recent addition to the Spotify library. The genre is folk-pop. Read some reviews and enjoy! (Note: US release date is next week...
If you're able to look past the campy facade and accept that this is purely a record of glimmering pop, it'll be something you'll cherish.
Hurts ditch the storytelling in favour of songs about The Agony And Ecstasy Of Being Theo Hutchcraft. High drama follows
One of music’s biggest mouthpieces adds the sound of Bikini Kill and Hole to her warm-hearted pop
Hi again. Here is the solid new album by singer-songwriter Kate Nash. It was added to Spotify earlier this week. Enjoy! (US version here and version for AT, AU, BE, CH, DE, NO and...
At 25, English singer-songwriter Kate Nash is still figuring out what she likes musically and, most of all, who she is. She’s doing what most artists who became famous at a young...
The six-stringed father of pristine, intricate, vibrant Britpop goes solo at last
Speak of the messenger and lo, he doth appear – it's just taken him a bloody long time to turn up carrying a bag bulging with missives penned solely by his own hand. But when you...
The Godlike Genius and guitar-slinger for hire finally goes it alone, rifling through pop history to reveal himself as a natural born frontman and a writer to rival his old mate...
There's a delightful incongruence when it comes to assessing The Cribs' position in the British rock canon. Initially lumped in with The Libertines by a complacently fervent music...