Ed Harcourt – Monochrome To Colour – Album Review By Cathy Brown It has been almost twenty years since Ed Harcourt released his Mercury Prize-nominated debut Here Be Monsters and in recent […]
Ed Harcourt – Monochrome To Colour – Album Review
IDLES – Ultra Mono – Album Review
IDLES – Ultra Mono – Album Review by Killian Laher IDLES have dished out some of the finest in-your-face punk rock in recent years. They really delivered on 2018’s Joy As An […]
Susanna – Baudelaire & Piano – Album Review
Susanna – Baudelaire & Piano – Album Review Release date: Friday, September 11th 2020 via SusannaSonata. French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821 – 1867) was a literary enfant terrible who had issues with […]
Looking back: The Cult – The Cult
Looking back: The Cult – The Cult by Killian Laher By the time the nineties rolled around The Cult seemed out of time and out of touch. They had released Ceremony in […]
Suzanne Vega – An Evening of New York Stories and Songs
Suzanne Vega – An Evening of New York Stories and Songs by Killian Laher Suzanne Vega is releasing a career-spanning live album, a recording of a show from 2019 in New York. For […]
Bill Callahan – Gold Record – Album Review
Bill Callahan – Gold Record – Album Review Out September 4th Bill Callahan follows up last year’s outstanding Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest with a follow-up, just over a year later. It’s […]
Looking Back: Yo La Tengo – Electr-O-Pura
Looking Back: Yo La Tengo – Electr-O-Pura This album is being reissued on September 4th Yo La Tengo open 1995’s Electr-O-Pura with the familiar Velvet-y groove of Decora, Georgia Hubley’s ghostly vocals […]
Album of the Week – 21/08/20
Album of the Week – 21/08/20 This is another slow August week for new music! If you’re a fan of The Killers, you’re probably in the wrong place! They have a new […]
Looking Back: Mark Lanegan – Whiskey for the Holy Ghost
Looking Back: Mark Lanegan – Whiskey for the Holy Ghost by Killian Laher As we know from his recent autobiography, Mark Lanegan was in poor health for much of the nineties. For […]
Looking back: Sparklehorse – It’s A Wonderful Life
Looking back: Sparklehorse – It’s A Wonderful Life By Killian Laher No More Workhorse had a listen back to Sparklehorse’s third album, remembering the late Mark Linkous. Sparklehorse’s third album, released in […]
Psychedelic Furs – Made of Rain – Album Review
Psychedelic Furs – Made of Rain – Album Review by Killian Laher File this one under: unexpected return to former glories. I was amazed to find this was their first album in […]
Max Richter – Voices – Album Review
Max Richter – Voices – Album Review by Killian Laher The new album by Max Richter is ten years in the making. Based around recitals of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, […]
Jason Molina – Eight Gates – Album Review
Jason Molina – Eight Gates – Album Review by Killian Laher It’s really quite strange to be reviewing a new Jason Molina album considering his death in 2013. For those unaware, he […]
Looking Back: Stills Young – Long May You Run
Looking Back: Stills Young – Long May You Run by Killian Laher Although it’s well known that Neil Young has been pretty hit and miss throughout his career, it’s generally agreed that […]
Yo La Tengo – We Have Amnesia Sometimes – Album Review
Yo La Tengo – We Have Amnesia Sometimes – Album Review by Killian Laher Yo La Tengo have just released probably their strangest album to date. It’s a series of five ‘formless’ […]
Thomas Bartlett – Shelter – Album Review
Thomas Bartlett – Shelter – Album Review by Killian Laher Thomas Bartlett, pianist from the Gloaming has released an album of 8 lengthy but lovely piano pieces. The opener Lucida is contemplative […]
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – All The Good Times – Album Review
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – All The Good Times – Album Review by Killian Laher Gillian Welch doesn’t play the media game, she has pretty much gone to ground since 2011’s […]
Looking Back: Tindersticks – Curtains
Looking Back: Tindersticks – Curtains by Killian Laher The funny thing about Tindersticks third album, Curtains (released in 1997) is that on paper it was everything a fan hoped for. An even […]
brdmm – Bedroom – Album Review
brdmm – Bedroom – Album Review by Killian Laher bdrmm are ‘five good boys’ from Hull, according to their Bandcamp page. They have just released a debut album which will seem instantly […]
Silverbacks – Fad – Album Review
Silverbacks – Fad – Album Review by Killian Laher Big things are expected of Dublin’s Silverbacks. With Girl Band’s Daniel Fox on production, the album has a thrilling, in your face sound. […]
Looking Back: David Bowie – 1. Outside – Album Review
David Bowie – 1. Outside – Album Review by Killian Laher Written off at the time as an over-ambitious folly, David Bowie’s 1995 album Outside (or 1. Outside) may be trying a […]
Piano Works – Gabríel Ólafs – Album Review
Piano Works – Gabríel Ólafs – Album Review by Cathy Brown Ólafs is something of a musical prodigy. He has been playing since the age of 5 and his debut album, Absent […]
Solitude Sounds: Preoccupations – Preoccupations
Solitude Sounds: Preoccupations – Preoccupations by Killian Laher The band formerly known as Viet Cong renamed themselves as Preoccupations in 2016, but on the basis of this album that was their only […]
Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher – Album Review
Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher – Album Review by Cathy Brown It has been almost three years since the release of Phoebe Bridgers debut album Stranger in the Alps, but she hasn’t been […]
Rose City Band – Summerlong – Album Review
Rose City Band – Summerlong – Album Review by Cathy Brown Ripley Johnson is one of the undisputed masters of modern psychedelic music. With his band Wooden Shjips and as one half […]
Solitude Sounds: Juliana Hatfield – Only Everything
Solitude Sounds: Juliana Hatfield – Only Everything by Killian Laher Juliana Hatfield’s third album, released in 1995 saw her music take a harder edge. The album opens (after a cough from Hatfield) […]
Solitude Sounds: The Blue Nile – High
Solitude Sounds: The Blue Nile – High by Killian Laher The Blue Nile released their fourth album ‘High’ in 2004, a mere eight years after their previous album. The slow drift of […]
Modern Nature – Annual – Album Review
Modern Nature – Annual – Album Review by Killian Laher Modern Nature follow up last year’s impressive ‘How To Live’ album with a new mini-album. With Will Young absent this time, former […]
Solitude Sounds: The Sewing Room – And Nico
Solitude Sounds: The Sewing Room – And Nico by Killian Laher The Sewing Room was a sort of off-shoot of the Stars of Heaven, the sort of softer side to them. The […]
