ALBUM REVIEW – REAL ESTATE: DANIEL

Real Estate offer a light and summery record filled with charm and many smile inducing refrains. The jangly guitars and effortless vocal delivery provide a pleasant listen which really helped bring me down from a few grim cliff edges this week. It acted as a tool to calm down with after listening to entitled pricks […]
Tranquility Base was a name given to the section of the moon where in 1969 the Apollo 11 astronauts landed, and the idea of a hotel and casino on the exact spot on the moon, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked, is as bonkers as the rest of this album! The sixth Arctic Monkeys […]

ALBUM: ARCTIC MONKEYS – TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL & CASINO

ALBUM: WILD BEASTS – LAST NIGHT MY DREAMS CAME TRUE

In late 2017 Wild beasts (the 4-piece indie band from Kendal) announced that they would sadly be ending their journey after 14 years together, in which time they have released four studio albums. After their first album 2008’s enthusiastic, fresh sounding Limbo, Panto, they seemed to really polish their sound and refine their direction, defining […]
The advent of using synths in Indie Rock is nothing new, its popularity seemed to rise in conjunction with skinny jeans and I often wonder if there’s a correlation between the amount of bands like Everything Everything and Friendly Fires who howl their lyrics and the ‘close crotch’ of tight jeans. With that in mind, […]

ALBUM: HOOKWORMS- MICROSHIFT

WILD BEASTS ANNOUNCE ‘LAST NIGHT ALL MY DREAMS CAME TRUE’ LIVE STUDIO ALBUM NOW LISTEN TO ‘THE DEVIL’S PALACE’

Today, we share Wild Beasts ‘The Devil’s Palace’, a rarely-played track that blends ‘The Devil’s Crayon’, from the quartet’s debut Limbo, Panto, and ‘Palace’, from 2014’s Present Tense. Taken from upcoming album Last Night All My Dreams Came True – a live studio album to be released on Friday 16th February 2018 via Domino Documents, […]
Following 2015’s album Fresh Blood, Matthew E. White has shared ‘Cool Out’, a song that’s a distinct sidestep away from the Spacebomb studio sound of Fresh Blood and its predecessor Big Inner. Comprised of sultry, nocturnal soul, the song stems from a spontaneous collaboration with fellow Richmond producer and Stone’s Throw recording artist DJ Harrison […]

MATTHEW E. WHITE SHARES ‘COOL OUT’ TRACK FEATURING NATALIE PRASS

Album Review: Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper

Noah’s voice is somewhere up in the ether. Opener ‘Sequential Circuits’ christens the album with a languorous sweep of the arm, the choral vocal so drenched in reverb that the edges blur. Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) harmonises with himself as sustained, echoing synth plays the same trick. The beat is a damp pulse, a squidgy […]
Archie Bronson Outfit have announced details of the release of a new single. In White Relief is released on Domino on Monday 25th August 2014. The single, taken from their recent fourth album, Wild Crush, which was released in May of this year, was recorded in their home-town of Bath during the album sessions. Commenting on […]

NEWS: ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT VIDEO FOR THE NEW SINGLE

Album Review: Real Estate – Atlas

There’s something bizarrely unfathomable about Real Estate, and third album Atlas especially. There’s nothing overwhelmingly striking about their sound, we have a classic jangly guitar dynamic, eschewing any Zeitgeist leap towards electronica. There’s a distinct lack of choruses, at least in the traditional sense of reaching a musical, emotional, vocal pinnacle. Previous album Days‘ carefree languidness […]
The beasts are back and the beasts are burdened. Charged with following up the success of their previous three long players – Limbo, Panto, Two Dancers and Smoother – the Leeds based indie-electronic four-piece are back with their latest – Present Tense. Is there a pun to be found in that title… is it ‘present, […]

Album Review: Wild Beasts – Present Tense