1 Hopeful Rd. – Vintage Trouble Review

Released: August 2015 When Vintage Trouble exploded into the consciousness of the mainstream on Jools Holland’s Later Live… programme, the grove-infused quar... Read More...

High Country – The Sword Review

Released: August 2015 Having begun their career more than a decade ago as a kind of science fiction Black Sabbath, The Sword looked destined to churn out chu... Read More...

Hypnophobia – Jacco Gardner Review

Released: May 2015 By its very nature psychedelic music can be a pretty jarring affair, and as such takes a great precision to get it right. For Jacco Gardne... Read More...

Spotlight On Julie Mintz

Take a backing member of one of dance and electronic music’s biggest names, add a splash of childhood country influences and the production magic of a distingui... Read More...

Burden EP – Worry Dolls Review

Released: June 2015 With a sound so seeped in traditional folk and rootsy transatlantic country music, the revelation that Worry Dolls hail from London is so... Read More...

Edge Of The Sun – Calexico Review

Released: April 2015 For those who like their rock music fairly middle of the road, but with dark undertones of an edginess that suggests they have something... Read More...

Jetstream Sunset – Thomas Truax Review

Released: April 2015 Thomas Truax is a self-styled all American troubadour, and while the journeyman persona is often one that is useful for adding a sense o... Read More...

Labour of Love and Present Arms Deluxe Editions – UB40 Review

Released: March 2015 Cover albums are usually hit and miss affairs, and rarely garner a classic status among fans, which makes the release of Labour of Love ... Read More...

Money For Rope’s Debut Self-Titled Album – Review

Released: March 2015 For a band straight out of Melbourne, Australia, it is perhaps unsurprising that Money For Rope is a band making waves in the surf rock ... Read More...

Tomorrow, Then – Conrad Vingoe Review

Released: March 2015 Take a fresh voice with just a hint of world-weariness, add an upright bass and gentle drum shuffles, and you have the recipe for a succ... Read More...

Mount The Air – The Unthanks Review

Released: February 2015 When your second album takes two years to make, one would expect the record label executives to have their heads in their hands, cast... Read More...

Tomorrow Will Follow Today – Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman Review

Released: February 2015 Husband and wife bands can be a fractious outfit – as Fleetwood Mac proved in the 1970s, but there is no denying the chemistry that c... Read More...