I admit that seeing a trumpet player in an indie-band line-up does ring the twee alarm bell. And naming yourselves the Rosie Taylor Project doesn’t instil much confidence either. Who is is Rosie Taylor anyway? She’s certainly not in the...Read More »

Back in LA and we’ve been shitted for days. What a come down. Frankly, we can’t see or feel any more, so we’re just going to do what we wanna do – make loud blues music, with some grease-boogie and...Read More »

Blues Funeral is only the second full album to be credited to the Mark Lanegan Band (following 2004’s minor commercial breakthrough Bubblegum), but it follows on from a near unbroken string of long players with his involvement that stretches back...Read More »

Ex-Hefner frontman Darren Hayman set himself the unenviable task of writing, recording and creating a video for a song each day in January 2011. Having been available online for a few months and their respective videos on a January Songs...Read More »

The easy-going opener Eighth Avenue cruises like Belle & Sebastien freewheeling down a sunshine promenade. The warm acoustics fuel the engine while singer Amber Papini has a 60s candy smile the whole way through – talk about friendly introductions, this...Read More »

Slipping in and out of consciousness, the only thing you know exists is the base drum. It beats like a heartbeat on every track – the rest flows, floats and cascades like a cinematic daydream. Blondes’ debut is slick and...Read More »

The amorphous Scottish trio, The Twilight Sad, are back with their third and perhaps most surprising album to date. They have never been afraid of mixing things up, from completely reworking the post rock inclined pop of Fourteen Autumns &...Read More »

We’re only five weeks into 2012, but we’ve already been blessed with what’s likely to be the most hyped, discussed and debated album of the year – Lana Del Rey’s debut, Born To Die. Del Rey’s fascinating backstory of image...Read More »

It’s been three – or thereabouts – years since All the Saints debut noise-fest Fire on Corridor X. They now offer us a new rebooted version of their fuzz laden – some call it ‘shoegaze’ – intelli-rock. It sounds like...Read More »

Sharon Van Etten has risen to the challenge on her new record, Tramp. Produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner and featuring an array of indie royalty (The Walkman’s Matt Berrick, Beirut’s Zach Condon and Julianna Barwick for instance), this is...Read More »