In the last five years since their formation, Blossoms are emerging from a period where perhaps guitar-based bands that truly make an impact are on the decline. They offer a breath of fresh air with their infectious brand of indie disco/glam. Their first record showed a great depth for a debut with the single “Charlemagne” […]
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Album Review: The Amazons – The Amazons
Shortlisted for the BBC Music Sound of 2017 poll, nominated for Q’s Best Breakthrough Act gong and listed as one to watch out for in 2017 by MTV, BBC Radio 1 and the NME, Reading rockers The Amazons have quickly risen to the top since their formation in 2014. With the support of music press […]
Another Arrogant Wannabe: An Interview with Rory Wynne
The music industry is littered with mercurial characters. If nothing else it’s a way of creating a mystique and intrigue around your music and often makes for an entertaining read. Just look at the way NME have been living off soundbites from the Gallagher brothers for the last couple of years. They are journalistic gold. […]
Live Review: Blossoms @ Exeter Lemon Grove
I‘m just going to put it out there: I liked Blossoms before they were cool. Admittedly, it was just a few months before they were cool — I discovered them while stumbling around Spotify in my never-ending quest for a new band to adore — but it’s still worth remembering. After all, they haven’t even […]
Preview: NME Awards Tour
The current British indie scene resembles something close to a barren musical wasteland of copycats, wannabe’s and has-beens. Only last week Leicester-based rockers Kasabian declared guitar music as ‘dead’. With the red-haired, corporate people pleaser Ed Sheeran standing aloft the charts and breaking records left, right and centre there has been little to no reaction […]
Album Review: Sundara Karma – Youth is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect
Four-piece alternative act Sundara Karma are the latest act to emerge from Reading’s budding music scene, a group whose Sanskrit name translates to ‘beautiful life’. A Coldplay-esque attitude with their name, their debut LP is the much more revealingly named Youth is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect, a slightly cynically named piece from a group […]
Exeposé Music’s Best Albums of 2016 | 50-41
[50-41] [40-31] [30-21] [Top 20] 50 Blossoms Blossoms Blossoms have blossomed (ahem) in 2016. Their self-titled album rounded off the releases of hit after hit throughout the year. Blossoms carefully tread the line between indie guitar band and radio-friendly pop and successfully fuse the two. Catchy choruses are unavoidable as you listen through and there […]
Feature: Class of 2017 – Up and Coming Artists
With 2016 swiftly coming to a close, it is time to set our gaze to the upcoming year and the many different musical talents it will provide us with. Here at Exeposé Music we like to think we have our finger on the pulse, as Rory Marcham, Music Editor, attempts to predict who will be […]
Album Review: Blossoms – Blossoms
Indie rockers Blossoms are the latest talent to spring onto the scene, hailing from Stockport, nestled in the musical nirvana of Greater Manchester, and with their eponymous debut, the quintet have bloomed into one of the year’s hottest names to listen to after finishing fourth in BBC’s ‘Sound Of’ poll for 2016. Airtime from BBC […]
Radio One’s Big Weekend 2016: Five bands you can’t afford to miss – Sunday
You’re here. You’ve sold your soul to another 9am, but this time the rewards were palpable; not quotes on a lecture slide you might skim once for revision purposes, but in the form of a wristband to Europe’s biggest free festival. You’ve been guided through the best of Saturday’s line-up at Big Weekend, but the […]