Piney Gir’s 2011 album Geronimo was another chapter in what is an under-rated career. She was able to craft beautiful indie pop songs that owed a debt to the 60s sounds of Spector and the Beach Boys. It was music...Read More »

Diagrams are currently winning. They’re winning in our office, in music and in life. Their debut album Black Light was worth waiting for after they’d tantalised us with a sublime EP. So, we had questions – questions about their influences,...Read More »

Last year’s self-titled album from Wild Flag – a band formed of members of The Minders, Sleater Kinney, Quasi, Autoclave and Helium – has always been near the office stereo ever since it was released back in September. When we’re...Read More »

After a long period of internet buzz (check their single Candy Girl/You Wish You Were Red) the Trailer Trash Tracys release their debut record, Ester, next week. It’s a collection of broken down pop and introspective dreams – just the...Read More »

New York duo Phantogram are having a great 2011 in the pages of Bowlegs. We included their tracks on not one but two of our mixtapes, and, quite frankly, we really liked their EP Nightlife. And it’s that lukewarm sentiment...Read More »

Dan Mangan’s Oh Fortune is a record of real emotion, melancholy and grand arrangement (have you heard the Post-War Blues track?). It manages to mix his songwriter roots with a new found urgency, throwing up a set of songs that...Read More »

We’ve been on Big Deal’s case for quite some time. We’ve posted their tracks, reviewed their excellent album, Lights Out, hell … we’ve even done a couple of awesome sessions with them, which you should really check out if you...Read More »

We here at Bowlegs are constantly swooning over Nick Ray’s Speculator. We post his tracks when they’re released, we put his music on our mixtapes, hell … we even gave his album Nice eight out of ten. So all that’s...Read More »

Shara Worden’s eclectic and ambitious album All Things Will Unwind (her third as My Brightest Diamond) has been enthralling us since its October release. Charming, clever and ecentric – the album pushed pop’s boundaries making it eminently listenable but distinctly...Read More »

Summer Camp’s debut album, Welcome to Condale, is like something that dropped directly out of John Hughes’s mind. So perfect is it in its referencing of 80s teen movies, culture and music that it makes you want to bunk off...Read More »