Cloudspeakers

Apparently there was an ‘explosion’ of music in the city of Montreal during 2003. I must say, I didn’t hear anything from this side of ‘the Pond’, but Priestess are categorically not part... Read more

The Essex duo of beardy performance poet Scroobius Pip and DJ/producer Dan le Sac, who have been collaborating since 2006 when le Sac remixed Pip’s solo collection ‘No Commercial Breaks’, str... Read more

From Newcastle they might be, but singer David Burn and his crew manage to live up to their name slightly by taking the acid drenched, psychedelic moments of the pioneering 1960s Detroit Garage roc... Read more

Ears tickled by last year’s Callsigns EP or the more recentDrawing Maps From Memory single will not be disappointed by this, the debut long slog by Caledonian button-pushers North Atlantic Oscill... Read more

Despite iTunes sucking this one in as ‘Unclassifiable’ and the PR rather over-optimistically describing the ‘unique sonic skin’, this trio are Jazz with a capital ‘Mmmmmm’. Nothing wron... Read more

Turin Brakes have managed to produce a new album that is exclusively ‘filler’. The listener is kept on tenterhooks, expecting something - anything - to happen at any minute. Time is beginning t... Read more

“Fifteen tracks of rock and roll gold” claims the over excited PR blurb. Now there are two kinds of gold in this world. There is real, mined out of mountains, blood has been spilled in villages... Read more

Combined with the recent Throats self-titled album, Holy Roar has made me even more envious of the youth of today. Youngsters are now writing and creating music that I struggle to do myself as a ja... Read more

Reading the label blurb attached to this CD I must admit to being a bit sceptical, after all the term ’gameboy power poppers’ was used. My first question was ’What does that actually mean?’. After ... Read more

There’s so much going on with this album, any life-fearing Daily Mail-reading fossil would think it an example of attention deficit disordered ‘Broken Britain’, if they heard it. It’s Willi... Read more