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
Small Talk in Stereo – The Stray Lions (reviewed by Dave...
Rock music doesn’t have to be big, brash, and bombastic. I know it made its name on that image, but the genre has been...
Post Punk/Goth
Kissing Lions – Ghost Painted Sky (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
You always know something good is going to happen when you drop the needle and are greeted by a bass line that is all...
Shoegaze/Dreampop
Edge of the World – Korda Korder (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Although often immersed in a more cinematic, wide-screen, dream-pop sound, this latest one, from Korda Korder, ‘Edge of the World’, is a song whose...
Indie
Black Pearl Summer – Fanny Alexandra (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Sonically, the new one from Fanny Alexandra feels timeless. As the song breezes in on a Latin lilt, island vibes shot through with blues...
Pop/Power Pop
Save You Now – The Summertimes (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
With a sound as warm and welcoming as the band name, ‘Save You Now’ is a shimmering slice of indie meets old-school power-pop –...
Folk/Country
Serial Dreamers – Wren + Wilde (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Is there such a thing as dreamicana? I ask because stepping into the sonic world Wren + Wilde unlocks with the release of the...
Singer-Songwriter/Acoustica
Scenes From a Well-Worn Path (Side Two) – Music By Jeremy...
If debut albums are supposed to be the sound of an artist finding their feet, finding their sound, finding their way into the musical...
R&B/Soul
Identity – Lady Nade (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
When you look beyond specific journalistic labels, it is fair to say that most musical styles can be called ‘roots’ music – soul, blues,...
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
Kill or B Killed – I.K.P. (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
As hip-hop and all its sonic offspring continue to grow, expand, and explore new territory, sonic and otherwise, it moves far from its South...
Jazz/Blues
Ghosts – Mark Newman (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Blues spans a broad spectrum, from the spacious roots sound of a simple, battered acoustic to the full-on electric band sounds made by superstars...
Classical/Instrumental
Get Together – Summer Fades Away/Vaudlow (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
The modern world is a marvellous place. Not many years ago, the idea of a Chinese band and a US duo collaborating on a record would have been...
Avant Garde
Phantoms of Nagasaki – Vantablack (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Nick Hudson has been responsible for some of the most moving, eclectic, devastatingly beautiful, beguiling, exciting and adventurous music of recent times, probably because...
Interviews
Musical Machinations: A quick conversation with Mattias Alsander about writing songs...
With a new single from Fräulein Und Alsander just out, I caught up with the man behind the name, Mattias Alsander, to find out...
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
My River – M3G (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Trying to stand out in a world of guitar-slinging folk-popsters and would-be hipster troubadours when you make music with just voice and guitar is...
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
Long Live The Resistance – Cindy Lawson (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Even on my side of the Atlantic, Minneapolis has become a beacon for civilian resistance against overreaching government power, and as a Brit, the...
Summer Lovin’ : A quick chat with Peter Jakobsson about love songs, football and...
Nautiluspete, the project of Swedish songwriter Peter Jakobsson has just released a song about a love worth fighting for. “The Beacon” is uplifting EDM with a...
In the Silence of the Hills – Moon and Aries (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
The music that this intercontinental duo makes does, by its very nature, err on the side of drifting and ambient, effortless and elegant. But...
Serial Dreamers – Wren + Wilde (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Is there such a thing as dreamicana? I ask because stepping into the sonic world Wren + Wilde unlocks with the release of the...
The Fuzzy End of the Lollipop – the black watch (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
When John Andrew Fredrick says that he intends this to be the last black watch album, he does add the caveat that he has...
Dark Sister – Death Dealer Union (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you think that the trademark growling, searing, dark and demonic vocal style that defines the heavier end of the metal scene is the...
