Here’s a bit of 7″ pleasure that no-one with any vaguely folky inclinations should permit to pass them by. The Left Outsides were born in the fallout of the demise of brilliant London psych-folksters The 18th Day of May. Alison and Mark played viola and guitar respectively in that much-lamented band, and have [...]
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 [...]
Ah Kid Canveral, one of the very few successful purveyors of spiky indie pop in a city so devoted to its agit-folk that you’d think there was something in the water. Their last single Smash Hits is a slice of bouncy indie pop so perfect it could more or less define the genre.
I fact, [...]
How hard is it to make it as a band when you’re part of a thriving local scene? Tough enough, I should imagine. Is it easy to be overlooked in all the noise? Is it better or worse than being part of a smaller scene, or a more fragmented one perhaps? [...]
Malcolm Holcombe is pretty much a legend. In the mid-nineties he emerged — already mature –from the mountains of western North Carolina to critical acclaim in country and folk music circles. He has produced a new record every 5 years or so since then, and he’s spent time on the road with some prime talent, [...]
Somehow the EP name ‘Withered Hand - Religious Songs’ makes a sort of skewed sense when you realise that Dan is singing about masturbation and such like. It seems like withering might be the sort of inventive punishment our splendiferous lord gawwd almighty might visit upon the unclean and the self-appreciative.
Especially singing choruses like [...]
