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DeVotchka - How It Ends
DeVotchkaHow It EndsAlbum ReviewI have to confess, I was a bit wary of this record. The brief notes that accompanied it promised 'a disparate, yet articulate union of Romani, Greek, Slavic, Bolero, Tango and Mariachi...
Review posted on 3rd September 2007
Beirut - Elephant Gun
Beirut Elephant Gun Single Review Now this is an odd one, and no mistake. A lad from New Mexico who makes solo records but performs with a ten-piece band. Apparently he met a bunch of...
Review posted on 9th July 2007
Johnossi - Johnossi
Johnossi Johnossi Album Review Johnossi is a Stockholm-based duo comprising a bloke called John, who sings and plays the guitar, and a bloke called Ossi, who plays the drums. Stockholm's answer to the White Stripes,...
Review posted on 9th July 2007
Ulrich Schnauss - Quicksand Memory
Ulrich SchnaussQuicksand MemoryEP ReviewWhat the hell's this? Ulrich Schnauss in live drums and guitar shocker! The opening track of this EP, 'Look At The Sky', sounds like a rock band. We're not used to this,...
Review posted on 21st June 2007
Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
Ulrich SchnaussGoodbyeAlbum ReviewIf you're not familiar with Ulrich Schnauss, where have you been? Nah, just kidding. But this is the German producer's third 'proper' album by my reckoning. His form prior to this record is...
Review posted on 21st June 2007
Gallows - Orchestra of Wolves
GallowsOrchestra of WolvesAlbum Review'Punk rock' is a much abused term these days. It's often applied to music that doesn't really merit it. Happily, though, Gallows album 'Orchestra Of Wolves' does merit it. The sustained intensity,...
Review posted on 21st June 2007
Von Sudenfed - Fledermaus Can't Get It
Von Sudenfed Fledermaus Can't Get It Album Review Threshold Appr Von Sudenfed are Andi Toma, Jan St Werner (Mouse on Mars), and The Fall's Mark E. Smith. Blimey! Who'd have thought it? Now, for a...
Review posted on 14th May 2007
Stephanie Dosen - A Lily For The Specture
Stephanie Dosen A Lily For The Specture Album Review Stephanie Dosen is a new name to me (her Leeds gig in February slipped under the radar, it seems), and the first fact that my research...
Review posted on 14th May 2007
Green On Red - BBC Sessions
Green On Red BBC Sessions Album Review This album contains 19 tracks, recorded between 1989 and 1991 for such luminaries as Andy Kershaw, Richard Skinner, Bob Harris and Johnny Walker. Perhaps tellingly, the name of...
Review posted on 14th May 2007
Black Francis - Threshold Apprehension
Black Francis Threshold Apprehension Single Review There are some artists from whom you want experimentation. Others you want to do what they do well. It's fair to say that Black Francis falls firmly into the...
Review posted on 14th May 2007
Adventure Club - The Train
Adventure Club The Train Single Review 'Bursting out of the upcoming Birmingham scene', if I'm to believe everything I read, are Adventure Club. On first listen, 'The Train' comes across like a decent chorus in...
Review posted on 14th May 2007
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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate
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Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
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Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
![Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]](https://images.contactmusic.com/images/home/homepage/luke-de-sciscio-abof-a.jpg "Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]")
Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
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