by Martyn Young
Chilean producer Matias Agauyo is a globalized musician in the truest sense. Agauyo’s sound is a rich melting pot of textures, sounds and rhythms informed…
by Chris Saunders
It would be fair to say that there is a significant amount of hype surrounding 22-year-old Tom Odell, from Chichester. He has featured in the...
by Jordan Mainzer
Oblivians have returned from an over 15-year hiatus at exactly the right time: when seemingly countless numbers of bands have made the Memphis trio’s trademark...
by Chris White
With Sigur Rós also releasing their latest album this week, Anna Von Hausswolff’s stark but outstanding second offering Ceremony is a timely reminder that the...
by Steven Johnson
The origins of Collision/Detection don’t lend themselves to simple explanation. It’s the result of an audio project overseen by Long Division With Remainders (a husband...
by Daniel Paton
Bruce Springsteen, as is so often the case, appears to have a job to do. In spite of the usually epic duration of his live...
by Michael Hubbard
Jon Hopkins‘ fourth solo album Immunity is a sublime, intoxicating monster. Inspired by the arc of an epic night out, though wrapping together far more...
by Martyn Young
James Holden has been working in the outer limits of experimental electronic music for almost 15 years now. His Border Community record label has become...
by Jordan Mainzer
What is bound to be the most popular talking point about Sigur Rós’s new album Kveikur is the band’s ability to take a musical trend...
by David Welsh
Tom and Alex White were just teenagers when they released Holes In The Wall, Electric Soft Parade‘s Mercury-nominated debut; mere slips of lads whose accomplished...
by David Welsh
An album called Deep Thuds. By a band called Spacin’. Only seven tracks in all, most of which stagger past the five-minute mark and well...
by Sam Shepherd
To explain quite what Madrid’s Ginferno do is a rather daunting task. Clearly accomplished musicians, they are keen to explore multiple genres and musical possibilities....
by Alan Ashton-Smith
There can’t be many people who don’t like a horn section. Stick a bit of brass on a track and you get motion, rich textures...
by Laurence Green
In the fuzzy hinterland between pop and rock, Dublin-based quartet Kodaline occupy a particularly blurry middle ground. Their formula is a simple one: combining the...
by Jack Chown
Mark Mulcahy seems to have propelled out of another age, one of ’70s country rock, though with an indier, but equally earnest, twist. Following the...
by Christopher Monk
When Austra emerged in 2011 with their debut album Feel It Break, they were – alongside the likes of Zola Jesus, Esben And The Witch...
by Sam Shepherd
Almost inevitably Taffy’s Japanese roots mean that they are instantly compared to Shonen Knife, but Taffy are not quite treading the same path. Lixiviate does...
