‘Dot To Dot’ draws influences from a plethora of genres, cultures, tones and flavours. It's a banging tune with big bass sounds, big energetic drums and just big, well... 'bigness'
Read MoreListen/review: Cavern Of Anti-Matter – Melody In High Feedback Tones
Mike Oldfield-like arpeggios, twinkle-grit synths and motorik drumming is set to a wistful progression that delivers in spades before dipping out ungracefully in a clunky electro-funk finale.
Read MoreListen/review: Blue House – Hot Air Balloons
A new release by jangle-pop duo Blue House stirs an almost Krautrock beat and high-altitude synths into the gentle broth of acoustic guitar and dreamy vocals
Read MoreLost In Transmission 3: 17/11/15
Introduce your grateful ears to Lost In The Manor's latest curation of choice cuts, featuring The Drink, Band Of Gold, Blackmale Beats featuring Meakoom, Joon Moon and Love Nor Money
Read MoreWatch/review: Guadalupe Plata – Calle 24
The plot of Guadalupe Plata's lo-fi promo zips along surreally at an urgent pace, all matching the fuzz-toned garage-blues rumble of ‘Calle 24’ itself, a tune that hovers between the Soledad Brothers, Dick Dale and The Cramps.
Read MoreListen/review: Palm – Doggy Doctor
'Doggy Doctor' is a slow and strange number replete with chiming guitars and a kind of car-sick nauseous quality to its heavy lurching momentum. It’s challenging music that never quite settles in the stomach till the starry outro.
Read MoreListen/review: Eliza Shaddad – Wars
'Wars' starts with a guitar riff slowly bleeding through a touching vocal line that seeps in later. It’s quite different to the Eliza songs I'm used to but still features her sweet, sultry vocals on top of the track. There is a certain roughness to them now,
Read MoreListen/review: Beach House – Elegy To The Void
This is certifiably Beach House at their very best. Atop the astral synths and buoyant beats sits a meditation on impermanence from Victoria Legrand. "Black clock looming distant" she coos, as the song drifts and arranges itself to brace a phenomenal feedback-saturated guitar solo from Alex Scally.
Read MoreWatch/review: King Korea – Zoo Generation
The pounding riffs, Eagles of Death Metal-esque vocal delivery and the astoundingly thumping catchiness of the band all feel like great influences from the desert-rock scene.
Read MoreLive review: Caspian and Jo Quail, The Dome, 2/11/15
Caspian hit that glorious sweet spot where every note just sat right and emanated energy throughout the room, vibrating through the audience. It was a killer performance
Read MoreLive review: Orphan Boy at The Sebright Arms 29/10/15
Singer Rob Cross is a fine lyrical chronicler of the travails of the unfashionable everyday, not unlike a provincial British Springsteen, and, for all their punk roots, Orphan Boy at their best have a flavour of The Boss’s widescreen, anthemic escapism.
Read MoreLost In Transmission 2: 30/10/15
Our October's end amalgamation of five of the finest tracks of the moment
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Listen/review: David Ward – Möbius Wave
Ward’s soulful operatic vocal is set to harmonious, subtle contrasts. The slow-burning percussive pound, considered guitar licks and gently rising orchestration of the lovely verses is the real bedrock of the song, and ‘Möbius Wave’ never fails to intrigue.
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Watch/review: Jane Weaver – I Need A Connection
The effortless delivery of Weaver's vocals makes for a tasty treat further amplified by those Eighties-inspired synths that fill the space in the background, especially in the chorus where it gets a bit more meaty and emphatic. It's a pop-inspired track that has a cute flair to it and is inspiring
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Listen/review: O Emperor – Switchblade
The first thing that stands out on ‘Switchblade’ is its simple, delightful bassline and playful synth-riff melody that kinda floats on top before the vocals kick in. These are distinct and welcoming, coating the music in what feels like a warm massage oil.
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Listen/review: LAGS – Fear, Control, Mothers
The lashing six-string, growling rhythmic rumble, throaty melodic roar and overall Hurricane Jaoquin levels of energy mark 'Fear, Control, Mothers' most clearly as A-grade punk rock, and LAGS as a band to get psyched about
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Listen/review: Luo – Ebb & Flow
The jaw-dropping percussive engine takes top billing on ‘Ebb And Flow’, blending the trad and the tech to craft a showcase pitching up between downtempo dubsteppy nocturnes and adventurous post-rock.
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Listen/review: Tempers – Trains
The music kicks in at a heart-racing tempo that has the whole track moving, your heart pumping and your blood constantly at the edge of your skin.
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Listen/review: Sudakistan – Mundo Mamon
Latino influences are infused throughout, which brings a nice extra element and helps to distinguish Sudakistan’s sound from the wall of punk that slams you in the face for the rest of 'Mundo Mamon'
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Listen/review: The Vryll Society – Air
Despite a peppering of diverting effects, The Vryll Society’s hypnotic hazy psychedelia is comforting in its familiarity. ‘Air’, the lead track from their new EP ‘Pangea’, holds many reference points in its eddy of gentle space rock
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