Husband-wife bands are rife across the music world. You don’t have far to look to see spouses picking up instruments together, from Arcade Fire to Wildbirds and Peacedrums, from The Handsome Furs to The Handsome Family. But here’s something a wee bit different - a husband and wife, both closely involved in each other’s music [...]
Euros Childs sounds like a man cut loose. He’s no longer constrained by such things as record labels, which leaves him free to mess about with keyboards and do whatever the hell he likes. This is generally a good thing, so he gets to play around with grumbling synths, silly lyrics and song titles, childhood [...]
When I hear albums like this, I get convinced that there’s no need for expensive recording studios, engineers, producers or any of that stuff. If you’re Merrill Garbus all you need is a digital voice recorder and Audacity, or so the legend goes. Whatever the case, this is a triumph of lo-fi pop that draws [...]
This blog is no stranger to the agreeable chamber folk-pop of Left With Pictures - we’ve had singles on here, we’ve had a Seven Songs, and now after an extended wait, we have their newly released debut album. Those who have been following the band’s output to date will be familiar with a few of [...]
People use words like ‘legend’ a bit too loosely in this business. Does being able to play an instrument really well, or releasing loads of albums, or having cult appeal really make someone a legend? How about actually creating your own type of music, inventing your own musical instrument, and being the main man of [...]
Or to give it the full title Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age.
The new Broadcast album isn’t really the new Broadcast album. It was 2005 since we last heard from Trish Keenan and James Cargill, and their fourth ‘proper’ long-player arrives next year. But in the meantime we have [...]
Here’s the second part of the track-by-track rundown on Balletesque, the new album from The Young Republic, by lead singer Julian Saporiti. Here he tells us more about the Nashville band’s second (or first proper) album, including how to pronounce the title, how they found their groove and how you might find yourself in some [...]
Today’s a long-awaited one. It finally sees the release of The Young Republic’s Balletesque. Not that I’ve been waiting all this time though; I’ve been lucky enough to had a copy for a while, and long-time readers (are there any of these?) will have heard me enthusing at various points this year. But it’s out [...]
Fans of Micah P. Hinson, those who have loved his three albums of powerful, melancholic, soulful, country-tinged rock, may have been a little surprised by his latest record. Instead of baring his soul to us, he’s channeling his energies into interpreting other people’s music. Yes, it’s a covers album, and a double album at that. [...]
A new Richard Hawley album is always a big event in the Growl household. We’re both fans, but Mrs Growl especially so. She was the one who ran to the main stage at End of the Road when Bob Lind announced that Hawley and Jarvis were to be backing him up on a few songs. [...]
