Premiers
Single Premiere: Pink Houses – Lurleen Ladd (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you are going to write a love letter to Gen X, as Lurleen Ladd’s forthcoming album, Reclamation, is, then it would seem inconceivable that you...
Rock/Punk/Metal
version of life – Radiola (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Music genres are dead! Not only that, version of life is the sound of Radiola hammering the final nail in that restrictive coffin. And if you think that...
Post Punk/Goth
Dream – Hollow Star (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Some music, the best music, certainly, comes close to the act of time travel. Play a record, and sometimes something jumps out at you,...
Shoegaze/Dreampop
Down To You – Broken Horses (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
‘Down to You’ sounds, and indeed feels, like the progeny of all that great music that smoothed and coloured the serene fringes of post-punk...
Indie
The Things I Said – SulkyMan (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
We all get forgetful as we get older. I’m terrible at losing door keys and glasses, misplacing books, and, on one occasion, my cat,...
Pop/Power Pop
Isolation – KaiserKillers (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If the definition of power-pop might be music that captures the jaunty feel of pop delivered with the aplomb of rock and roll, which...
Folk/Country
Single Premiere: Pink Houses – Lurleen Ladd (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you are going to write a love letter to Gen X, as Lurleen Ladd’s forthcoming album, Reclamation, is, then it would seem inconceivable that you...
Singer-Songwriter/Acoustica
Helpless – Torrent Sound (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I suspect that there are few folk players who wouldn’t describe their music as intimate; it has become the industry buzzword for would-be sensitive artists....
R&B/Soul
Always Be Mine – Ed Sykes and Friends (reviewed by Dave...
A lifetime of listening thanks to the day job (there is a pun in the band name if you look deep enough) means that...
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
April Apocalypse – Toddy Tang (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
This latest single from Toddy Tang opens up all sorts of discussions about the use of AI in music. I know certain people will automatically shy...
Hip-hop/Rap
Vienna – Son of Dior (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
All genres follow the same sort of evolutionary flow. Core artists define a sound; others copy it, and over time, those who follow move...
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
Gelino – Satoshi (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you wanted any further proof that music is a constant force in the world, one that moves and evolves through the ages, changing...
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
The Method in the Musical Madness: A conversation with Anastasiya Bazhenova...
Less a debut album, rather what Anastasiya Bazhenova prefers to call her “first complete artistic statement”, the release of From Mendelssohn to Madness was the perfect opportunity to sit...
Live
Speak to Me – Kathy Sabol (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Although the songs on Speak to Me were written over several years, they took on new meaning following Kathy Sabol's life-threatening illness last year....
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
A Shared Experience – recollections of Jimi Hendrix
The authors of a new book on Jimi Hendrix are looking for your help. Following the well-received first volume of 'A People's History of...
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
Maybe – Jacob Barrett (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If Jacob Barrett’s previous single, ‘Here I Go Again,’ was a more beat-driven and groovesome affair, this time out, he has given us something whose...
Down To You – Broken Horses (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
‘Down to You’ sounds, and indeed feels, like the progeny of all that great music that smoothed and coloured the serene fringes of post-punk...
Single Premiere: Pink Houses – Lurleen Ladd (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you are going to write a love letter to Gen X, as Lurleen Ladd’s forthcoming album, Reclamation, is, then it would seem inconceivable that you...
April Apocalypse – Toddy Tang (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
This latest single from Toddy Tang opens up all sorts of discussions about the use of AI in music. I know certain people will automatically shy...
version of life – Radiola (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Music genres are dead! Not only that, version of life is the sound of Radiola hammering the final nail in that restrictive coffin. And if you think that...
Rule of Three – Goddamn Wolves (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
You have to admire Goddamn Wolves’ ability to wander widely across a variety of sounds and styles without going so far out that they lose...
