This Music Made Me
by musicOMH
In December 2017, Tom Rogerson released his debut ‘solo’ album Finding Shore, a collaboration with legendary musician and producer Brian Eno. Released through Dead Oceans, home of Slowdive and Shame, the album…
Xylouris White is a thrilling meeting of minds in musical exploration and collaboration, established in 2013 by Cretan singer and laouto player George Xylouris and...
A Grave With No Name‘s sixth album Passover is described by its author Alexander Shields as a set of “interlocking short-stories”, written during a stay...
Lost Horizons is the brainchild of Bella Union label boss and sometime Cocteau Twins bassist Simon Raymonde and instrumental quartet Dif Juz‘s drummer Richie Thomas....
Over the last decade, Högni Egilsson has toured the globe with both Gus Gus and Hjaltalín, becoming a household name in his native Iceland along...
Born Nickolas Laurien in 1959, improbably in Greenland during a transatlantic flight stopover, Nick Nicely has flitted in and out of the periphery of psychedelia...
Impeccably timed, Ralegh Long‘s Upwards Of Summer arrived last week, just in time for the current dip in temperature and wearisome retrieval of outerwear from...
In the five years since 2012’s Words And Music, where they deconstructed the experience of being a pop fan through the medium of brilliant, sparkling...
The Hidden Cameras‘ recent album Home On Native Land, written over the course of a decade, found lynchpin Joel Gibb joining forces with a star-studded...
Three years ago, Icelander Ásgeir,’s album Dýrð í dauðaþögn became the fastest selling debut in his homeland ever, edging out the first offerings by Sigur...
As half of Fuck Buttons, Benjamin John Power provided material for the soundtrack to the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. His solo work as...
Katie Stelmanis’s third album as Austra, Future Politics, is arguably her most fully realised yet. Full of pop anthems carried by their creator’s striking, powerful...
Christmas has come early for Erasure fans, in the form of the 13-disc box set From Moscow To Mars, an anthology of the band’s work...
Pascal Arbez-Nicolas, known to clubbers across the world as Vitalic, releases his fourth album Voyager in the new year. The man whose ‘disco-poilue’ arguably signposted...
Douglas Dare‘s second album Aforger, the follow-up to Whelm, questions the boundaries between reality and fiction. Inspired by recent events and revelations encountered in...
Empire Of The Sun, the now 10-year-old, self-styled “post-apocalyptic psychedelic adventure” comprised of The Sleepy Jackson‘s Luke Steele and Pnau‘s Nick Littlemore, release their third...
Joan As Police Woman and Benjamin Lazar Davis met in Africa. Joan Wasser was in Ethiopia at the invitation of Damon Albarn‘s Africa Express, while...
C Duncan‘s debut album Architect was nominated for the 2015 Mercury Music Prize, and his music was featured in Waterloo Road. But the Glasgow-born composer...
Psychedelic pop duo Grumbling Fur are Ulver member and one-third of Æthenor (with Sunn O)))‘s Stephen O’Malley) Daniel O’Sullivan, and comic book artist and solo...
Somehow, 12 years have elapsed since KT Tunstall showed up on Later… with Jools Holland with 24 hours’ notice and, with a loop pedal,...
The Charlatans front man Tim Burgess has joined forces with New Yorker Peter Gordon to release a collaborative album called Same Language, Different Worlds. Burgess...
Preview: BBC Proms 2018
Anna Meredith, Natalie Prass, A Hawk And A Hacksaw… This Week In Gigs
Wye Oak – The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs
Lump, Simian Mobile Disco, Manic Street Preachers… Weekend Reads
Gregory Rose at 70 @ St John’s, Smith Square, London
Occasional Oratorio @ St George’s, Hanover Square, London
Interview: Sting & Shaggy – “It was very much an accident”
Slug – Higgledy Piggledy
