Cloudspeakers

Never judge a CD by its artwork: What you see is something that looks like it should sound like a Sufjan Stevens or Iron and Wine record. What you get is something that sounds quite like neither. N... Read more

A year on from their critically acclaimed, career-defining album Merriweather Post Pavillion, Animal Collective return with a five track, 27 minute ep. A year well spent? Perhaps.From what I rememb... Read more

Right, so Spiral Stairs is the guitarist and co-founder of Pavement who went on to then form Preston School of Industry? Yep. Well, Pavement fans, step away from this record if you want something t... Read more

Okay, so I wasn’t so enamoured with the album, but perhaps I was wrong... I think I said something about Morgan sounding a bit like The Zombies, but not as good. I’ve reached the conclusion, howeve... Read more

For a band with such a messy name, Dark Captain Light Captain make a seriously beautiful noise as is evidenced by this all-to-short ep of remixes.Opening with a cascade of glockenspiel, acoustic gu... Read more

There has always been an artistic fascination with the road: Kerouac, Easy Rider, Duel... it’s the open spaces set against urban monotony, the vast unknown versus the mundane, opportunity pitched a... Read more

On paper this is perhaps not the most captivating proposition: a double album of reworked and re-imagined recordings (plus a handful of originals... inspired by original recordings) of songs by Cha... Read more

A couple of years ago I remember harping on about how people apply the term 'folk music’ to that which isn’t really folk music at all. The example I cited at the time was James Yorkston, the acoust... Read more

Western Swing, for the uninitiated, might be something of an oddly shaped pill to swallow: part country, part swing, part European Gypsy jazz with a few other bits thrown in here and there. To be f... Read more

Let’s assume music is simply the outcome of some mathematical equation and musicians are substitutes for numbers in that equation: what do you think you’d get if you multiplied Montserrat Caballé w... Read more