New Music // Bear Driver
Ahead of the band’s upcoming SXSW shows, they’ve been giving away some free demos. Firstly they gave away the bright and blissful, ‘Golden Touch’ , just before Christmas and a few weeks ago they gave away a track called ‘Enemy.’ Now they are giving away ‘Jenny’, a track that will send you into a...
Review // Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
So Lykke Li returns with her second album after three years of self-confessed “craziness”. I won’t need to tell anybody that has heard ‘Get Some’ or ‘I Follow Rivers’ that a change of pace is very evident on the mesmerising Wounded Rhymes. The title of opening track, ‘Youth Knows No Pain’, couldn’t make it clearer...
Live Review // Glasser – The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Cameron Mesirow- most likely known to you and I as eccentric beauty, Glasser- has returned back to these shores for her own full UK tour after a successful stint last year opening for The XX. Tonight the Deaf Institute, a kitsch yet charming venue in Manchester, seems the perfect, intimate place for Mesirow to finally...
Review // Yuck – Yuck
The nineties; an era Yuck were probably too busy flipping Pogs and teething through to take note of musically. It would appear however that they’ve played a successful game of catch up with this, their eponymous album. Clouded engagements never got in the way for the band in the past incarnation however, half-raised from the...
New Music // Lykke Li – Love Out Of Lust
Lykke Li came away from 2008 having released one of the most suprising albums of the year in her debut, Youth Novels. Fast forward three years and she’s gearing up for her follow-up release Wounded Rhymes, out 28/2 on Warner. While she’s already previewed a number of tracks from the LP, latest stream ‘Love Out...
Interview // My First Tooth
I caught up with Northampton based band My First Tooth in late January, in a crowded, noisy, indie club in Leeds. Preparing for that night’s gig and still slightly hungover from the night before in York, My First Tooth continued to exude a happy go lucky atmosphere. They have recently gained success in the press;...
Review// Frankie & the Heartstrings-Hunger (album)
Having first seen Frankie and the boys on the Club NME awards tour last February, this album has been a long time coming and it’s an album of polished pop gems! With Edwyn Collins on production duties, we’re treated to a shiny new version of the single, Fragile, ending with a sea of feedback and...
Review // Sleigh Bells – Riot Rhythm
Sleigh Bells’ ‘Treats’ was probably the best example last year of an album that did exactly what it said on the tin. It was a short, sharp blast of riotous synths and guitars that combined with sweeter vocals to brilliant effect. Riot Rhythm is the latest single from the devilish duo but out of context it’s...
Live Review // Spark @ The Garage
The HMV’s ‘Next Big Thing’ shows started last week and have so far have presented sets from Gaggle, James Blake, Fenech-Soler and more. This time, it was 19 year-old popstar and Brit school graduate, Spark ‘s (known to her family and friends as Jess Morgan) turn to give HMV’s ‘Next Big Thing’ a bash. This...
Photography // Red Rabbit
Photographs by Eleanor Doughty (www.eleanordoughty.com)
Album review // PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
PJ Harvey is back with her eighth album, ‘Let England Shake’. I am having to write this as I listen to it. The important thing to note though is that this it is because it is the fourth time I have listened to it today and I cannot stop. It is simply brilliant, endearing, haunting,...
Review // Vice – Teenage Riot
On the 10th November, I went down to the Student Protests at Knightsbridge, partly out of curiosity, partly as it was an opportunity to flyer for a friend’s club night and partly because I was meeting a friend in Covent Garden. I’d never been to a protest before so I didn’t know quite what to expect....
