Listen/review: Darwin Deez – Time Machine

Matthew Doyle August 10, 2015

"Deez has this amazingly affable talent to bash up songs that anyone and everyone would want to dance to. This latest single is a perfect example"

Listen/review: Deradoorian – A Beautiful Woman

Nick Mee July 8, 2015

"There are elements of everything from Bow Wow Wow to Can, Grace Jones and (courtesy of the breathy squeaks) Laurie Anderson amid this leftfield mashup – and you’d be right in thinking that makes for a intriguingly scope-swelling whole"

Watch/Review: C Duncan – Garden

Nick Mee June 7, 2015

The truth of the matter is that the mild-mannered Glaswegian just keeps turning out song after song that draw the focus like a lyrical Lionel Messi. 'Garden' is another medal-worthy slice of poppy kaleidoscopica

Live review: Dead Ceremony at Electrowerkz, London, 6/5/15

Holly Warren May 11, 2015

Dead Ceremony managed to create a three-dimensional sound with a depth that filled the room, the singer lost in the music, seeming to forget he was being watched.

Listen/Review: Demob Happy – Young & Numb/Fizz

Ali Waite May 5, 2015

Their arsenal of tunes is as enviable as anybody’s at the moment, with a longevity that is unquestionable. Their debut LP is the most anticipated for a long time and I can’t wait for the impact it will make.

Live review: Decoy Jet at Proud, Camden, 23/1/15

Holly Warren February 1, 2015

If you’re a frequent weekend warrior at London’s music venues and indie club nights, you’ll most probably run into Decoy Jet. The four-piece from Enfield seem to be playing hipster hangouts across the capital every weekend, and as a result look more at home treading (and shredding) the stage than they do off it.

Photos: Guitars Have Ghosts, Dolls, Immigrants, Princes Of Maine – 30th Jan 2015, The Finsbury

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Listen/Review: Diagrams – Gentle Morning Song

Holly Warren January 18, 2015

Diagrams’ Sam Genders, former member of Tunng, returns with ‘Gentle Morning Song’, taken from Diagrams' new album ‘Chromatics’, out in the UK now. The song’s charming, honeyed electronica lends itself to comparisons to The Shins and is probably closer to what you expected from Belle and Sebastian’s new single than the song Belle and Sebastian actually released. In the verses, Sam Genders’ distinctly accented voice sounds as if it’s running across a landscape inhabited solely by Stuart Murdoch, and, as with every offering from Diagrams, the chorus is an endless jug of joy.

Watch/Review: Desperate Journalist – Control

Nick Mee November 30, 2014

There’s something of the Manic Street Preachers to the classic alt-rock intensity of Desperate Journalist's ‘Control’, and not just because bassist Simon Drowner is a kohl-eyed shoe-in for the tribute act.

Listen/Review: Demob Happy – Succubus

Ali Waite October 5, 2014

If there’s one band in Brighton guaranteed to host the best Great Escape after-party, as well as be a consistent burden to plasterers in the area after causing ceilings to cave in with their uproarious sets, it has to be Demob Happy.