Laura Marling, I Speak Because I Can album cover

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, Live in The Netherlands

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 - Cloud Seed

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

OIVAVOI1

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

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