Cloudspeakers

The Dillinger Escape Plan’s fourth full-length, Option Paralysis, begins with ten second of near-silence before opener ‘Farewell, Mona Lisa’ kicks in. Ten seconds to wonder if this is the day tha... Lees meer

When music inspires, evokes and, indeed, provokes, it’s at its very best. Pressing play can open up a world that, until now, might have been completely unexplored. A world that, for whatever reason... Lees meer

So it goes that New Young Pony Club return after a rather long hiatus, hoping to remind everyone why they were so hotly tipped in the run up to their 2007 debut Fantastic Playroom. The new record i... Lees meer

Canadian Husband and Wife led collective The Besnard Lakes return with a dense, cinematic and dark new album recorded on equipment rumoured to have been used by Led Zeppelin on their Physical Graff... Lees meer

With a few other re-releases in the past couple of weeks from the Southern Records distro hub, it seems that there is now little excuse not to be aware of some of the other records that have passed... Lees meer

Vancouver gets about 1200mm of rainfall a year, most of it falling in the mild winter months, the city’s precipitation uppermost in the minds of the Winter Olympic authorities recently, but also am... Lees meer

For a long time, the moment I heard the hearty keen of a saxophone, I’d be transported to the Fast Show’s incumbent jazz man, Louis Balfour. He of the bowl haircut and uniform catchphrase, heâ€... Lees meer

Looking back at the past couple of years, there are very few anomalies in the tendency towards objectively pristine sounding records. Glimmering production, cascading harmonies and orchestral arran... Lees meer

It’s difficult not to read the Drive-By Truckers’ latest effort, The Big To-Do, as a eulogy of sorts. A eulogy of exactly what is left to the listener’s discretion; the subject(s) is/are neve... Lees meer

If you’ve had an ear to the ground over the last few weeks, you may have detected a bit of a buzz growing about the new Titus Andronicus record. Their excellent debut The Airing of Grievances was c... Lees meer