Tag: Folk
Single Review: Of Monsters and Men – Alligator
The first song of Of Monsters and Men’s next album Fever Dream has just been released after a four-year-long absence. I expected quite a...
Live Review: Better Oblivion Community Centre @ O2 Academy, Bristol
Better Oblivion Community Centre is advertised as a therapeutic, almost cult-like, meeting. The warm voice that tells you this at the beginning and the...
Album Review: Jade Bird – Jade Bird
Guitar music has undoubtedly become stale in the last few decades. For every ground-breaker like The 1975, there are a million and one indie...
Album Review: Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising
It's been four years since Natalie Mering, the soulful voice behind Weyes Blood released more music into the world. With the dawn of April,...
Live Review: Benjamin Francis Leftwich @ The Cavern
Benjamin Francis Leftwich’s music is not precisely what one thinks about when they hear the words “nightclub on a Saturday night”. The whole concept...
Live Review: Beans On Toast @ Exeter Phoenix
I always leave a Beans On Toast gig with a sense of optimism I don't see much of in everyday life. That sounds like...
Album Review: Skinny Lister – The Story Is…
Everyone's favourite shanty punks, Skinny Lister, are back with their fourth studio album The Story Is.... I first saw the six piece band in...
Album Review: Bronze Radio Return – Entertain You
Entertain You, Bronze Radio Returns’ sixth album, is an exhilarating and euphoric blend of fresh genres.
Reminiscing upon The Buggles’ 1980 hit ‘Video Killed the...
Album Review: Ward Thomas – Restless Minds
It goes without saying that England’s country music scene is only really just finding its feet, with the genre having primarily been relegated to...
The art of the cover song
When we think of cover songs, there is usually a foreboding sense of cringe-inducing disappointment. Think of dodgy Live Lounge covers: The Arctic Monkeys...
