INVOCAL – ‘Uneven Keel’ (Album Review)
Invocal are a quirky all-girl acoustic quartet from Northampton, who produce unusual songs using vocal harmonies, acoustic guitar, cello and occasionally clarinet. The album is split almost evenly between very funny songs and darker, moodier numbers. Half the band, including the songwriter, are lesbian and the album kicks off with two tracks dealing with this [...]
-->THE TWANG – ‘Either Way’ (single review)
So it’s finally being released, even though we’ve all heard it a billion and one times already and could sing it backwards in our sleep! Now you have the option to buy the rowdy brummie hooligans new single (still at least there’s b-sides!) Blessed, or cursed depending on your own particular disposition, by enormously outlandish [...]
-->ALBERTA CROSS – ‘The Thief and the Heartbreaker’ (album review)
Electric, escapist alt folk from a Swede and a Brit. Petter Ericson Stakee’s vocals soar up on a higher plain. Haunted and beautifully grandiose, with parts of Rufus Wainwright, Soulsavers and Guillemots, lifted by a heavenly chorale of backing vocals. An unlikely mishmash, looking like two 60’s travelling hillbillies, but together they’re a perfect musical [...]
-->THE ENEMY – (album preview / sampler review)
The Enemy, quite an aggressive start and a signal of intent from these three working class heroes, who seem to have gone on a round trip to London and Manchester to collect their sound before heading back home to Coventry. Here we have six tantalizing tastings from the as yet untitled debut album, set for [...]
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