Premiers
Video Premiere: Sweeter Than Before – Scott Allen & The List...
As I probably said when reviewing their splendid album, June, Scott Allen & The List has a timeless, almost genreless sound, or at least...
Rock/Punk/Metal
Burn – Joe Weldon (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
It is fair to say this intense, intimate song runs on a timeless, relatable truth: we often only realise how important someone was to...
Post Punk/Goth
Failure Blooms – Ghost Pained Sky (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If some album artwork is just a handy wrapper, something merely to look nice and often bearing little relevance to the music it houses,...
Shoegaze/Dreampop
We’re All Dead – Kramies (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Four years on from Kramies being christened Dreampop Troubadour, we still find him drifting through the more ambient end of the pop world, wandering...
Indie
Tree’s Reign Down, Fire On – Nick Hudson (reviewed by Dave...
For reasons that will become apparent later, this may be Nick Hudson’s last solo album in a while; it is also the final chapter...
Pop/Power Pop
Do It All Again – Michael Lazar (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is something rather appealing, especially in today’s whirlwind world, about a song that reminds us to stop worrying about what lies around the...
Folk/Country
Died Too Young – Circus Mind (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is something excruciatingly poignant about writing about this latest single from Circus Mind on 11th November, the day on which we acknowledge the...
Singer-Songwriter/Acoustica
Flowers – Kelley Smith (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is something special about music that doesn’t feel the need to announce itself, that trusts a melody, a voice and the exact few...
R&B/Soul
Law of Attraction – Sun Atlas (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If there is a place on the musical map that Sun Atlas doesn’t pass through via The Law of Attraction’s scintillating suite of sounds,...
Reggae/Ska/Dub
A Part of Everything – Dubwiser (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Perhaps more than most genres, reggae has a uniquely recognisable sound, yet like all sounds and styles, it still has to move with the...
Dance/EDM
Rising Empire – Lord Conrad (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
While some artists build their musical worlds around familiar sounds and styles that fall easily into existing comfort zones, Lord Conrad prefers something altogether...
Hip-hop/Rap
For Us – Ja-Wan (ft. Karis Lovechild and YG Teck) (reviewed...
With his latest release, ‘For Us,’ Ja-Wan balances conscious hip-hop and harder-edged street rap, allowing them to share the same space without either becoming...
Jazz/Blues
Let’s Be Friends – The Ralph Champagne Revue (reviewed by Dave...
It would be very easy for anyone coming from a foot-on-the-monitor, rock ‘n’ roll background to approach such musical territory, that of the 50s-infused...
Classical/Instrumental
Evidence – Dismantlists (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Instrumental music has a particular magic: the ability to conjure entire landscapes, emotions, and narratives without resorting to words. Minneapolis musician Steve Seel understands...
Avant Garde
The Soft Collapse – Jaberdarwin (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you ever thought groove and experimentation were opposites on the music spectrum, ‘Arctic Anthill,’ the opener to Jaberdarwin’s debut, The Soft Collapse, would...
Interviews
Nostalgia trips and future plans: Another conversation with Kimme
With a couple of singles out recently and an album committed to vinyl, it’s been a busy time for Kimme, so I sat down...
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
Playing the Changes – George Collins (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is something wonderfully appropriate about using music as the backdrop to a story about picking up the pieces of a shattered life. Music,...
6 of the best
Every House Will Fall – Tom Minor (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Every great event needs a soundtrack, but in the world of Tom Minor, such anthems take more deft and dexterous forms. Let the likes...
We’re All Dead – Kramies (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Four years on from Kramies being christened Dreampop Troubadour, we still find him drifting through the more ambient end of the pop world, wandering...
Elegy – Hollow Star (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Given the joyous jangling cascade that tumbles out of that guitar, the post-punk beat and bass, the slight air of melancholy, and that sweet-spot...
Trial – Alwyn Morrison (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If Alwyn Morrison’s debut EP, Heartsplit, concerned itself, as the title suggests, with affairs of the heart, Trial, his latest quartet of songs, takes...
Lost in Creation – Cam Cole (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Lost in Creation feels like it has been a long time coming, but I’m sure that’s what happens when an artist teases the leading...
Sweet Tooth – Sensor Noise (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Music that doesn't fit neatly into one genre or another, that doesn't stay in its lane, as it were, is always more fun than...
