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
Dance Like You’re Dead – Echo Kid (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Echo Kid themselves describe the sound they make as “kaleidoscopic dance hall disco thunder” which seems as good a tag as any for an...
Pop/Power Pop
Dreamer – JES (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you prefer your pop music to come with a side order of grace and cinematics – a very big side order at that...
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
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...
Classical/Instrumental
Oceans – Alexander Laing (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If music with a lyrical component tends to draw you to the artist’s intended conclusion – actually, more than that – it pushes you...
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
what should we do today? – Forget, Forget (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
There is something rather appealing about a band that suggests the answer to life's many questions might be to slow down, stay in and...
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...
Dreamer – JES (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If you prefer your pop music to come with a side order of grace and cinematics – a very big side order at that...
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...
Jeremiah – It’s Karma It’s Cool (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
Crossroads. They have always featured prominently in music, both literally and metaphorically. And although the one that the titular ‘Jeremiah’ finds himself at doesn’t...
Two Swans – John Dorian (reviewed by Dave Franklin)
If I can hear the slight echo of the original version of ‘Song To The Siren’ haunting the depths of this utterly romantic song,...
