Komorebi, Craft Spells.
If Breaking The Angle Against The Tide, a first from Craft Spells’ forthcoming Nausea full-length, intimated toward an altogether more accomplished sound to come, then Komorebi merely corroborates such...
View ArticleKeep Your Lips Sealed, The Dø.
It’s been some while already since Scandi duo The Dø were last heard from – some while too long. Although if Olivia Merilahti and Dan Levy have indeed busied themselves contriving such polychromic...
View ArticleStill Echoes, Left Right Arms.
Having previously bleated on about Tokyo bedroom songster Left Right Arms, it comes as something of a relief to hear of his return. And his latest endeavour, the six-track Scapes, is as impressive a...
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Review: Sleep Party People, Floating.
In the year 2012, in some parallel universe (and likely that in which its ostensibly Danish author, Brian Batz, has dual citizenship), We Were Drifting On A Sad Song was the fluffy, if forever...
View ArticleFirst Transmission: Everything by Electricity, Abyss.
Channelling the wistful ethereality of Jonas Bjerre’s Mew into something commensurately expansive, if slightly less desolate, London-based three-piece Everything by Electricity make for an immediately...
View ArticleFirst Transmission: Cambio Sun, Finite.
Adopted Dalstonite Charlie Tait, alias Cambio Sun, might well have amassed massive amounts of critical acclaim here in London already, although never before has the Antipodean’s work shone as brightly...
View ArticleEmpire of the Sun, Wandering Star.
Not only are Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore visibly back together, but they’re audibly back on track, too. For Wandering Star is not a cover of Portishead’s sullen wonder, but instead an all-new one...
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Fest Bests: SXSW 2015.
For one reason or another, (although in all honesty, it’s always a question of money, isn’t it?) I’ve never made it out to Austin, Texas for the annual (largely) independent music mara-, (putatively)...
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Review: SXSW 2015.
Attempting to digest the Austin omnimedia blowout that is SXSW, and regurgitate even vaguely cogent thoughts thereon subsequently, is nigh on impossible, by dint of it being so difficult to stomach to...
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Review: The Great Escape 2015.
Often termed ‘Britain’s answer to SXSW’, Brighton’s The Great Escape shouldn’t be seen in such condescendingly reductive terms; now in its tenth year, it’s pretty irrefutably become a full-blown...
View ArticleReview: Mew, Village Underground.
Typically, if not traditionally, it’s venues that operate particularly rigorous ‘one in, one out’ policies, rather than the artists that (at least attempt to) sell them out; nonetheless, no sooner had...
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