Cloudspeakers

Just to first set the scene, Example is the kind of act that would go down a storm at a baking hot Radio 1 Big Weekend or T4 On The Beach.Elliot John Gleave has a host of big name producers helping... Lees meer

To put Foals’ new album, Total Life Forever, into context with Antidotes: sonically, it’s akin to the effect of Ritalin on an angsty personality – the world becomes a calmer place.The debut offered... Lees meer

Don’t be fooled by the title, there’s nothing truly chaotic about this fourth album from everyone’s choice for band-I’d-most-like-to-have-a-beer-with, The Futureheads. Underneath these 13 blood ves... Lees meer

Hullensians are apparently a wordy lot – some Australian author called Peter Porter once called it the most poetic city in England – but those creative juices clearly took a less conventional route... Lees meer

If you were selecting three musicians to sensitively refurbish and bring to life old folk songs and poems from dusty bookshelves and vinyl collections, you would probably chose the three that make ... Lees meer

'The Big Black and the Blue' is the follow up to First Aid Kit's debut EP, 'Drunken Trees'. It was the pair’s sublime cover of Fleet Foxes’ Tiger Mountain Pheasant Song that suckered th... Lees meer

Joe Goddard has taken a musical sabbatical from Hot Chip to create a veritable fruit smorgasbord of electro tracks on an album which is an indulgent, unashamed homage to the sounds closest to his h... Lees meer

With an album title like The Theories Of Dr Lovelock from a band with a name like the Chemists, you’d be forgiven for hoping for a musical treat - a mad scientist type concoction of blended genius ... Lees meer

The fact that the days are rapidly drawing in really helped to set the scene for the second album from this indie folk-pop duo from Norway. It’s no wonder that their musical creativity has always y... Lees meer

The Longcut were once tipped to be the next darlings of Manchester. Formed in 2002, the trio leaked a slow trickle of records beginning with Transitions in 2004, which led to significant column inc... Lees meer