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
You loved the cage – Spinors (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
You gotta love Spinors, I mean, any band that looks like a bunch of steampunk anarchists and sounds like they have taken all the...
Post Punk/Goth
Glass Walls – Deadlight Dance (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you know something about the guys behind Deadlight Dance, you will find subliminal messages and suggestive symbolism throughout Glass Walls. If you aren’t...
Shoegaze/Dreampop
Only Human – Tallulah Rendall (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
In a world full of noise and self-importance, physical hustle, and ego-driven bustle, you have to admire how Tallulah Rendall quietly goes about her...
Indie
Forever Remember – Euplasia (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I guess that we are so far down the road from Britpop that artists inspired by that sound are now considered knowledgeable nostalgists rather...
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
Folk Kitchen – Franc Cinelli (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Franc Cinelli has been on an interesting journey since our paths last crossed, including making albums of a more ambient, soundscaping nature and music...
Singer-Songwriter/Acoustica
Fix This Mess – Rebecca Aadland (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
‘Fix This Mess’ isn’t a political song, but it gets to the heart of how we begin the healing process in this increasingly divided...
R&B/Soul
Funkin Days – Made Retro (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Made Retro is, on reflection, a great name for the music made here, suggesting something being constructed in the here and now, but with...
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
Walk On The Fire – Mr B (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It's always refreshing to see artists making music that fits very much into the modern dance-popscape, making songs with instantly apparent commercial appeal and...
Hip-hop/Rap
Snap, Crackle & Bop – Us3 (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Hip-hop and the myriad styles and sounds that it spawned have moved a long way from the soul and funk and jazz and pop...
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
The Truth is out there: A conversation with Larsa Dahlén of...
Under the name Yeah Baby Yeah, Larsa Dahlén has just dropped ‘The Truth’, a timeless message wrapped in wonderfully nostalgic music that explores fact...
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
Love You More – The Crystal Teardrop (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
They say that you should never judge a book by its cover. But sometimes you certainly can. Cast your eye over the cover of...
Reclaimation – Lurleen Ladd (reviewed by Dave Frankin)
Artists might write songs for very personal and individual reasons, as a way of sharing experiences and thoughts or perhaps to exorcise demons or...
Forever Remember – Euplasia (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
I guess that we are so far down the road from Britpop that artists inspired by that sound are now considered knowledgeable nostalgists rather...
The Truth is out there: A conversation with Larsa Dahlén of Yeah Baby Yeah
Under the name Yeah Baby Yeah, Larsa Dahlén has just dropped ‘The Truth’, a timeless message wrapped in wonderfully nostalgic music that explores fact...
You loved the cage – Spinors (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
You gotta love Spinors, I mean, any band that looks like a bunch of steampunk anarchists and sounds like they have taken all the...
Funkin Days – Made Retro (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Made Retro is, on reflection, a great name for the music made here, suggesting something being constructed in the here and now, but with...
