I was talking to JC from the Vinyl Villain about this album and said ‘You know, they’re starting to remind me just a little bit of Snow Patrol’ and instead of punching me then and there, he enthusiastically replied in the affirmative. Now Snow Patrol weren’t always shit: Songs For Polar Bears was patchy, but [...]
Hmm. It’s quite possible you might listen to this and find yourself choking on the sweetness.
I find I have to tread very carefully with music like this because it slips very subtly from the unbearable (Kate Nash) to the brilliant (Ruth Theodore). Where in between these two extremes does the lovely Lucy sit? [...]
I think Nick Cave finishes a whisker below Tom Waits in my personal pantheon of musical heroes. I think. It’s bloody close.
If I were to really have to come down on one side of that argument or another I think it might end up being on the basis that I think Cave has [...]
