Los Campesinos! formed in Cardiff in 2006 and Sick Scenes is their sixth full-length release following Hold On Now, Youngster… (2008), We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (2008), Romance is Boring (2010), Hello Sadness (2011) and NO BLUES (2013). The band consists of Gareth (vocals), Tom (lead guitar), Neil (guitar), Kim (vocals, keys), Rob (keys),… Read more »
Sam achieved instant cult hero status when Late Of The Pier broke big, the band shining a light on his wandering talents. Bruised by hard touring and the record business, he began to retreat, embracing a nomadic working style oblivious to space and time. Inji dropped in 2015, establishing his off-kilter pop sound as a… Read more »
Less than a decade ago, Josh Lloyd and Tom McFarland were two friends with what felt like the impossible dream of one day seeing their name above the door of their local venue, Shepherd’s Bush Empire. That was an ambition that they achieved when touring in support of their 2014 self-titled debut album. They went… Read more »
Formed in 2010 in Montclair, NJ by childhood friends Evan Stephens Hall and drummer Zack Levine, Pinegrove was named after a “beautiful and regulated, yet natural and messy” grid of pine trees on Evan’s college grounds. ‘The Pinegrove’ was a place of introspection, repose and spiritual serenity, and a place he had established to be… Read more »
‘Making A Door Less Open’, the latest album from Car Seat Headrest and the first set of brand new songs since 2016’s Teens Of Denial. Created over the course of four years, ‘Making a Door Less Open’ is the result of a collaboration between Car Seat Headrest, led by Will Toledo, and 1 Trait Danger,… Read more »
Before Montreal singer-songwriter Gus Englehorn was signed to Secret City Records he lived in a cabin in the woods and wrote Dungeon Master, the cutest, heaviest, strangest rock’n’roll record you will hear this year. Before he made the record he lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he fell in love at first sight with… Read more »
Cherry Glazerr released their explosive full-length album Apocalipstick on Inauguration Day in 2017. You might think the two tumultuous years since would have driven the band toward even more explicitly topical commentary. But as singer/guitarist/founder Clementine Creevy began writing the first of some thirty songs that would make up the new Stuffed & Ready, she… Read more »
Since its inception in 1992, Built to Spill founder Doug Martsch intended his beloved band to be a collaborative project, an ever-evolving group of incredible musicians making music and playing live together. “I wanted to switch the lineup for many reasons. Each time we finish a record I want the next one to sound totally… Read more »
Anna Meredith is a composer, producer and performer of both acoustic and electronic music. Her sound is frequently described as ‘uncategorisable’ and ‘genre-defying’ and straddles the worlds of contemporary classical, art pop, soundtracks, techno, installations and experimental rock. Her music has been performed everywhere from the Hollywood Bowl to BBC Last Night of the Proms… Read more »