Author: Owen Lloyd
Ali Whitton - A Failed Attempt At Something Worth Saying
Ali Whitton and the Broke Record PlayersA Failed Attempt At Something Worth SayingAlbum ReviewThese are interesting times for musicians. With the recent shake up at EMI likely to precipitate a cull of artists and staff...
Review posted on 9th April 2008
Hush The Many - Revolve
Hush The Many (Heed The Few) RevolveSingle ReviewHush The Many are rapidly losing their status as indie-folk's best-kept secret as the mainstream press pick up on the brilliant noises from the outer reaches. And with...
Review posted on 9th April 2008
Ferraby Lionheart - Catch The Brass Ring
Ferraby LionheartCatch The Brass Ring Album ReviewWith a name like that he just had to be a star. The superbly-monikered Ferraby Lionheart has followed a somewhat itinerant existence following his muse, from LA to Nashville,...
Review posted on 9th April 2008
The Brute Chorus - Chateau
The Brute ChorusChateauSingle ReviewIn which the barstaff of Camden's infamous Hawley Arms serve up a ramshackle barrage of demented Nick Cave fairy-tale blues and Jack-White-style mewling. There's a heavy hint of 'Lovecats' bass here, some...
Review posted on 9th April 2008
The National - Apartment Story
The NationalApartment Story Single Review With the stunning Boxer sure to appear on many critics' and fans' Album Of The Year lists over the next few weeks it's a good time to remember why; despite...
Review posted on 18th December 2007
Eugene McGuinness - Bold Street
Eugene McGuinnessBold Street Single Review The young McGuinness has been praised in these pages before for his idiosyncratic lyrical style, and this new single does nothing to dispel the view. 'Bold Street' (not too far...
Review posted on 18th December 2007
The Pattern Theory - ep1
The Pattern Theoryep1 EP Review In which a bunch of unassuming Music College students serve up a four-course meal of unashamedly tight instrumental jazz grooves and subtle post-rock workings. There's an innate understanding of dynamic...
Review posted on 18th December 2007
Ali Whitton & the Broken Record Players - Sarah Williams & the So-Called Friends
Ali Whitton & the BrokeRecordPlayersSarah Williams & the So-Called FriendsEP Review Ali Whitton & the BrokeRecord Players / Sarah Williams & the So-Called Friends - split 12" EP Williams and Whitton are the perfect partners...
Review posted on 18th December 2007
Sigur Ros - Hvarf/Heim
Sigur RosHvarf/Heim Album Review Sigur Ros's first album for 2 years is a bit of strange one; released to accompany the Heima DVD, it's not a soundtrack (there is little correlation between the songs on...
Review posted on 18th December 2007
Once - Original Soundtrack
OnceOriginal Soundtrack Album Review John Carney's low-budget tale of an Irish busker (The Frames' Glen Hansard) and a young Czech mother (Markéta Irglová) has been gaining astounding reviews from the cinema press for the realism...
Review posted on 18th December 2007
Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling
Basia BulatOh, My Darling Album Review The resurgent British interest in Canadian music shows no sign of abating - and it's about time too. For years a mention of the country's contribution to pop history...
Review posted on 20th August 2007
The Lodger - Grown Ups
The LodgerGrown UpsAlbum Review'Bedsit Indie'. There can't be many more phrases to immediately divide opinion between fans of alternative music; for each sensitive soul more than happy to wallow in a fey mire of 80's...
Review posted on 20th August 2007
The Broken Family Band - Love Your Man Love Your Woman
The Broken Family BandLove Your Man Love Your WomanSingle ReviewBack in manifesto territory here, and The Broken Family Band have swapped their previous routine country-tinged sound for an out-and-out stomper - 'Love Your Man Love...
Review posted on 17th July 2007
Nine Black Alps - Nine Black Alps
Nine Black AlpsNine Black AlpsAlbum ReviewSuch is major label paranoia these days that we haven't been given a full copy of Nine Black Alps' forthcoming LP Love/Hate. Instead the disc that arrives is a 6-track...
Review posted on 17th July 2007
Eugene McGuinness - Monsters Under The Bed
Eugene McGuinnessMonsters Under The BedSingle ReviewWe live in an era of total information immersion - and it's driving us mad. It's all too much to take in; no matter how much we cram there's still...
Review posted on 17th July 2007
Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday
Elvis PerkinsAsh WednesdayAlbum ReviewThe male singer-songwriter genre can often feel like an exercise in oneupmanship, with each teary-eyed wastrel staking a claim for the prize of 'most tortured'. But let's face it, woman troubles aren't...
Review posted on 17th July 2007
Keren Ann - Keren Ann
Keren AnnKeren AnnAlbum ReviewIs there a more international artist than Keren Ann Zeidel? Born in Israel to a Dutch-Russian-Javanese family, growing up in Paris and now spending much of her time in New York, it's...
Review posted on 17th July 2007
Foals - Hummer
FoalsHummerSingle Review Pitched somewhere between the feverish dance-funk of The Rapture and Shut Your Eyes And You'll Burst Into Flames, Foals' latest effort fizzes with bleeps and cymbals without really getting anywhere interesting. There's nothing...
Review posted on 4th June 2007
Joni Mitchell - Various Artists
A Tribute To Joni MitchellVarious ArtistsAlbum Review They're strange things, tribute albums. What appears a celebration of an artist's work can backfire horrendously if the covers aren't up to it, or reworkings can radically alter...
Review posted on 4th June 2007
Brian Buckley - For Her
Brian BuckleyFor HerAlbum Review Well, it's a surname with connotations, that's for sure. Despite having no familial link to the late Tim and Jeff Buckley, Brian Buckley will inevitably suffer comparisons to his namesakes, and...
Review posted on 4th June 2007
Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love
Lavender DiamondImagine Our LoveAlbum Review What to make of a band whose singer frequently sports fairy wings onstage? Such whimsical ostentation could come across as over-cloying tweeness were it not for the sheer quality of...
Review posted on 4th June 2007
Emma Pollock - Adrenaline
Emma PollockAdrenalineSingle Review OK, let's get this over with quickly. At first listen 'Adrenaline' sounds like Coldplay. A lot. Like 'Clocks' to be exact. The similarities are so striking it would be rather amiss not...
Review posted on 4th June 2007
Voxtrot - Blood Red Blood
VoxtrotBlood Red BloodSingle Review They're a greedy lot, the Texans. Not content with roaming a state bigger than most countries, when they're not trying to take over the world (or at least those nice oily...
Review posted on 4th June 2007
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank Album Review There's always a slight twinge of trepidation when faced with a record that our trans-Atlantic brethren have been clutching tightly to their obese...
Review posted on 30th April 2007
Acoustic 07
Various Artists Acoustic 07 Album Review A double disc of acts grouped together like this is bound to send enough alarm bells ringing to dissuade any self-respecting music fan. The mere thought of a label...
Review posted on 30th April 2007
Newton Faulkner - I Need Something
Newton Faulkner I Need Something Single Review Russian political dissident Alexandr Litvinenko was assassinated by unwittingly ingesting Polonium-210, a dangerous radioactive isotope that has the nasty habit of being able to kill people very very...
Review posted on 30th April 2007
The National - Mistaken For Strangers
The NationalMistaken For StrangersSingle Review It's on the edge - that metallic clunk, it's teetering on the edge towards feedback, before a hollow apocalyptic drum tattoo hurls everything over the precipice while Matt Berninger's gravest...
Review posted on 30th April 2007
Band Of Horses - The Funeral
Band Of Horses The Funeral Single Review Taken from 2006's Everything All The Time album, this single finds the South Carolina three-piece getting all epic on us. It's fitting to a certain extent that they've...
Review posted on 30th April 2007
Suggested
Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
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...
Advertisement
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...
Advertisement
