The fourth track on James Ferraro’s ‘Condo Pets’ EP is called ‘Life In A Day’, it imagines a melodic score to a Google map street view tour of Dubai, admittedly a strange place to find inspiration – but it creates...Read More »

It’s been far too long since we heard from Jens Lekman, 4 years to be precise. His album, ‘Night Falls OVer Kortedala’ was the last we heard – and as good as it was it was time for something new....Read More »

The new EP from Weekend is a set of melancholic hooks driven by ominous guitars that threaten to crash and burn at any given moment. Just witness the opening track ‘Sweet Sixteen’ – it continuously falls rather than rocks or...Read More »

It has to be said, Brighton’s Palmist label is bloody good at this split 12’’ lark. We were recently unashamedly gushy about the Lotus Plaza/Odonis Odonis release, and the label’s latest effort from Burning Yellows and The Whines has got...Read More »

It’s fair to say we were a bit underwhelmed by Mogwai’s last album, ‘Hardcore will Never Die, But You Will’. Perhaps it was because the band were doing what they’d always done for the past 13 years. Their new EP...Read More »

Anything Chaz Bundick does is going to come under close scrutiny, mainly due to the success of ‘Causers of This’, his 2010 album under the Toro Y Moi name. His second album, ‘Underneath the Pine’, garnered considerable acclaim for the...Read More »

Re-recording songs can go badly wrong , especially when they were so well received first time round. But Memoryhouse have done just that. Their much loved ‘The Years’ EP is back, and it’s sounding a little more polished second time...Read More »

With his latest single, Dent May is really rolling out the smoothness. It’s like he’s taken a bunch of charming 70s synth pop memorabilia and flattened it into a piece of clear 7’’ vinyl using a drum machine, some cosmic...Read More »

Are Big Troubles destined for a big splash in the second half of 2011? We don’t have crystal balls to rub, so we’ll leave those kinds of predictions to backstreet charlatans. We deal in facts here – cold hard facts...Read More »

We get the feeling people are struggling to categorise musicians like Jake Davidson, otherwise known as Two Suns. The one man, his instruments and his laptop set-up has been described in any number of ways – take your pick from...Read More »