Premiers
Single Premiere: Good Boy Good – Two Dark Birds (reviewed by...
If my first taste of Woodstock,NY’s Two Dark Birds was last summer’s “Pink Light,” a brooding and seductive number, my second bite reveals an entirely different side...
Rock/Punk/Metal
{ Persistent } Loop – Bruno Santos (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Rock music might have made its name on simple chord progressions and immediate, obvious and infectious grooves, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t evolved...
Post Punk/Goth
Reload – Hollow Shift (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
As the opening, arabesque vocals of "Play The Game" lead us into this latest EP from Hollow Shift, we are reminded that genres are...
Shoegaze/Dreampop
Hide Inside The Moon – Mortal Prophets (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Well, you certainly can’t accuse John Beckmann of being tardy when it comes to releasing music. Hide Inside the Moon comes a mere month after Lost in Space, but...
Indie
Mirabeau – The Real Zenogram (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
“Mirabeau” is a song that defies sound and style, genre, and indeed geography. It has an intriguing timeline and is the result not just...
Pop/Power Pop
Images of Heaven – Reduction in Force (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Well, that’s a blast from the past! I have just spent the last ten minutes reacquainting myself with Peter Godwin's much-overlooked 1982 single “Images of Heaven.” Why?...
Folk/Country
Dream Birds – Bog Witch (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
One of the many reasons to love Bog Witch is that you never know what you are going to get. Sure, you know it is going...
Singer-Songwriter/Acoustica
Life Is Not A Competition – Tim Eveleigh (reviewed by Dave...
I love the slightly self-deprecating pitch from Tim Eveleigh that accompanied his latest long player as it slid into my review pile. He suggests that as...
R&B/Soul
Single Premiere: Good Boy Good – Two Dark Birds (reviewed by...
If my first taste of Woodstock,NY’s Two Dark Birds was last summer’s “Pink Light,” a brooding and seductive number, my second bite reveals an entirely different side...
Reggae/Ska/Dub
Album Premiere: Lost Files – JaDon Blaxx (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If Dancehall arrived in the seventies as reggae's leaner, faster, more street-charged younger sibling, then Lost Files is a clear snapshot of where that...
Dance/EDM
Sci-Fi Wonders – KYXORA (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
To label "Sci-Fi Wonders," the new one from KYXORA, as merely EDM or dance music would be to miss the very thing that the...
Hip-hop/Rap
Invincible – 40pzz (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you’re still clinging to that worn-out notion that rap doesn’t evolve, Invincible should put that idea out of its misery in under four...
Jazz/Blues
Devil’s Dance – starletste_official (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
All genres move with the times, that is as it should be: that is as it must be. But the art of music keeping...
Classical/Instrumental
In A Haze – Ryoka Hagiwara (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Ryoka Hagiwara makes music that sits in that rare and enviable space between worlds. Her music sidesteps the volume and velocity so beloved of...
Avant Garde
Saltire – Bell Barrow (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is a sense of both continuity to Saltire, the new long-player from Bell Barrow, as well as that of striking out in a direction. Like...
Interviews
Talking serious gear: A chat with Heavy kID about their sound,...
Heavy kID is a band that is fond of their equipment, so here, we ask the Pensacola quintet to delve into what sonic weapons...
Live
Duke Special – Live at The Tuppenny, Swindon, 25th Nov ’25...
You are obviously doing something right when, without public proclamation or posters or posts, you can fill a venue to the brim on a...
Swindon
Rooks – M3G (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
The word ethereal is used a lot in music. Too much, really. Not least by overly-verbose scribblers like me. But sometimes no other word will do....
News
Better, third and final single release from John Blek’s forthcoming new...
Irish songwriter John Blek kicks off the new year with a new single, ‘Better’, on January 6th. It’s the third and final single taken...
Playlist
That Was The Music Week That Was – 080825
Another busy week at Dancing Towers, plenty of cool grassroots artists put under the pen, lots of great music mused over, and lots of...
Books
How Not To Write About Music – III: Starting the Week...
One of the joys of writing about new music is that it stops you from getting trapped in the past. Of course, bands like...
6 of the best
Eve – The Kellows (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It is perhaps telling that The Kellows call Sheffield, UK home, the city that also gave us iconic bands such as Pulp, Reverend and the Makers, and Arctic Monkeys, all bands that...
Saltire – Bell Barrow (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is a sense of both continuity to Saltire, the new long-player from Bell Barrow, as well as that of striking out in a direction. Like...
The Codes in the Stones (Part 1) – Eren Ayintap (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Taken from a concept album of the same name, this single, “The Codes in the Stones (Part 1)”, serves as a perfect first taste,...
Alaska Highwayman – The Muster Point Project (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
From Glen Campbell’s “Wichita Lineman” to Golden Earring’s “Radar Love” to Sturgill Simpson’s album/film concept Sound & Fury, the figure of the lonely, long-distance traveller is an...
Learning to love what I see in the mirror – Messy Eater (reviewed by Dave...
As the new one from Messy Eater starts to build, you wonder if you might have dropped the virtual needle on the wrong record,...
Though We Have Only Love: The Songs of Jacques Brel – Larry Beckett...
Covering the songs of others is an act as old as song itself. Even today, in the realms of blues, jazz, and folk, it...
