Premiers
Single Premiere: The Greatest Gift – Leem of Earth (reviewed by...
Taken from the band’s forthcoming album, SEE, an ambitious concept album inspired by George MacDonald’s Victorian-era fairy tale The Princess and Curdie, ‘The Greatest Gift’...
Rock/Punk/Metal
Cuasrán – Proyecto Escapulario (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Reviewing a song sung in a language I am not fluent in might seem difficult, but I think it actually makes you consider more...
Post Punk/Goth
Conditions – Cable Street Riot (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
As the claustrophobic intensity of ‘Conditions’ envelops the listener, as the disorienting glitchiness scratches at your consciousness, and the bass pulses, firing salvos of...
Shoegaze/Dreampop
Spaceship414 – Zoë Zohar (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If dream-pop is a very specific genre, woven from shimmering sonics and neo-psychedelic vibes, and dreamy pop is more an approach to mainstream pop where atmosphere and haze...
Indie
All Right Then – Kenny Foster (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Kenny Foster's songs have always carried a gentleness within them. Even when he has headed out into a more rock-and-roll realm, as he did...
Pop/Power Pop
Invisible (Four Ways) – Energy Whores (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It is a widely accepted fact that any song of value can stand up to reinterpretation or remix, reimagination or reworking, proof that it...
Folk/Country
Haunted Hotel – Shansylvania (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Following a tragic loss, vocalist Shannon Provost took refuge in a dark, otherworldly realm of her own making, one she had been building since childhood but...
Singer-Songwriter/Acoustica
Evergreen – Steve Stinson (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
His latest single, ‘Evergreen,’ moves Steve Stinson one step closer to his debut album, which drops next month, and, as all pre-album singles should, makes you...
R&B/Soul
Living in a Dream – Alex Tranter (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
You often see music like this tagged as easy-listening, which it is in the most objective meaning of the phrase, but this oft-maligned term...
Reggae/Ska/Dub
A Fistful of Covers – The Hempolics (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
A band releasing an EP of recordings covering their favorite songs is nothing new. A band doing that while also offering a dub reworking...
Dance/EDM
Feasting – The Sway (HK remix) (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I love what The Sway has done with ‘Feasting,’ not only because it reminds you of what a great remix can achieve, but also because...
Hip-hop/Rap
Beat the System – Holland Izz & Tayo Fetti (reviewed by...
Although the title might sound like the sort of track fellow Compton -ites, NWA would have gone for, things have changed in the 35 or so years since...
Jazz/Blues
Planet Android – Shapes (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It’s not that Shapes don’t fit easily into one genre; it’s more that they fit too easily into many. But not through some lack of focus...
Classical/Instrumental
Unanswered – mokroïé (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I remember watching a short film years ago that visually chronicled a journey from the outer reaches of the known universe to the molecular-level...
Avant Garde
The Shadows of Alienation – Spectrum of Disorder (reviewed by Dave...
Beyond the questions and themes raised by the spoken words and lyrical fragments on this EP, there is a broader question that faces the...
Interviews
A Star is Born: A chat with Sean MacLeod about the...
With a new album, the wonderfully titled That’s When The Earth Becomes a Star just dropped, it felt like the perfect time to sit down with Sean...
Live
Deadlight Dance/Flowers of Sacrifice @ The Tuppenny, Swindon 17th Sep ’26
Ahh, those were the days, my formative years spent in basement rock clubs drenched in dry ice, the smell of patchouli, the floor sticky...
Swindon
The Shadows of Alienation – Spectrum of Disorder (reviewed by Dave...
Beyond the questions and themes raised by the spoken words and lyrical fragments on this EP, there is a broader question that faces the...
News
Latest single ‘So Keen’ from Indie punk band Poets Corner is...
Following a great bunch of reviews & a host of radio plays for previous single She’s Got You Now, Hull’s authentic indie outfit Poets Corner are back with...
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
All Right Then – Kenny Foster (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Kenny Foster's songs have always carried a gentleness within them. Even when he has headed out into a more rock-and-roll realm, as he did...
That’s When the Earth Becomes a Star – Sean MacLeod (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I’ve probably said this before, but it is worth repeating: the best music doesn’t fit neatly into one genre or another. Doesn’t it stand...
Crinkles – Random Shapes (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
You don’t go to a local gig expecting to leave with an album that sounds like both a long-lost jazz-funk-prog record and the sound...
Take Me To The Sea – Mothbreath (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
The word ‘elemental’ hardly begins to sum up ‘Take Me To The Sea,’ the latest musical marine odyssey from Mothbreath. They have always made music...
Unanswered – mokroïé (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I remember watching a short film years ago that visually chronicled a journey from the outer reaches of the known universe to the molecular-level...
Now or Never – Broken Colours (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Give ‘Now or Never’ an initial spin, and you might come away thinking, yes, a pretty cool indie track. Go again, and you pick...
