I only found this band recently, and I am absolutely delighted with this album. Delight is probably the right word for the music as well, which simply leaks loveliness into your life as if it had an infinite supply to spread around. It’s somewhat fitting that the last song should be called Charm School too, [...]
I honestly didn’t get this album the first few times through, and now I have no idea how that could have happened. The hooks, delightful little tunes lapsing into growly guitar, it’s all spot on. Maybe I was just having a dopey week - it does happen, you know.
This reminds me an awful [...]
I think it is fair to say that the gypsy folk schtick is getting a little old now. Not that I don’t love it, just that it has been fucking ages since I saw a band without a fiddle player. I would rather it was an active choice, rather than just a knee-jerk reflex.
Punch & [...]
I tend to fawn and gush over bands on Tough Love Records to the extent that it can be a little embarrassing, but I genuinely love both The Sequins and Honeytrap. With Situationists, on the other hand, I can see a relationship that could go either way.
There’s a lot to like on this EP, and [...]
I really only found these guys because Bart at The Gentle Invasion invited them to play one of his gig nights at Henry’s recently. ‘Who are they, then’, I wondered innocently to myself before wandering off to MySpace, hearing the title track of this album, and dancing a little jig of joy all to myself.
What [...]
I don’t tend to get over-excited about bands until I’ve seen them live, if I can avoid it, so I don’t want to overdo it with these fellows, but the new songs from Sparrow & the Workshop are sounding really rather good.
More importantly* they bring a good dose of variety to the tinny and lovely [...]
