Laura Marling's second album has a fair amount to live up to. Her debut LP was Mercury nominated, critically lauded almost universally - rightly so. It was a quiet, sometimes fragile album with many moments of wispy beauty. At times ...Read More
Tindersticks don’t play London gigs often, which was why the dedicated were out in force tonight. The notoriously chatty Shepherds Bush Empire (which Stuart Staples professes a dislike for) was almost totally without back whispers. It was quite a nice ...Read More
Vex'd never got to finish this album, however, when you listen to this it sounds like nothing less than a finished, darkly shining, masterpiece. It's not as heavy as their previous effort Degenerate - yet still it is undeniably a ...Read More
The review for this show was already formulating in my mind as I journeyed to Chalk Farm. Desert blues band from western Africa wonderfully out of place in a venue steeped in British industrial heritage, at an event sponsored by ...Read More
Morton Valence: Bob And Veronica Ride Again Released 4th May 2009 Bastard Recordings Morton Valence's debut is an achingly British slab of pop, so desperate to tell us the story of the title's namesakes that it comes packaged with a romantic novella. Thankfully, ...Read More
