rescuing musical virtue in distress.
As the recent brace of songs, “Rose Devoid of Form” and “Everything at Once Forever”, makes clear, The Academy of Sun is equally at home with the heart-aching and cinematic as it is with full on rock ’n’ roll. Perhaps tell me about the bands influences and musical plan of attack? Nick Hudson: We don’t... Continue Reading →
Whilst this latest gem from Brighton’s The Academy of Sun feels like it is wandering through the same sort of territory that Nick Cave has explored from time to time, whereas the emotions our antipodean dark lord builds from err towards the bleak and torn, Rose Devoid of Form uses a more elegant, lilting beauty... Continue Reading →
Although ideas of isolation and abandonment, loneliness and longing have always been subjects explored by musicians, especially those who follow a more alternative path (after all, these subjects don’t lend them self to a particularly perky pop format), the fact that this sophomore release is the product of a band trying to plough their creative... Continue Reading →
It must be a good sign when after years of moaning that music doesn’t have much to say any more, increasingly the songs I find under the pen seem to be increasingly aware, increasingly politically switched on and increasingly using a platform to say something important. The Truth, a single helping to pave the way... Continue Reading →
I often read through the names that a band lists as their inspirations and think, really? It usually happens when presented with young indie bands claiming bands such as Arctic Monkeys to be their main musical touch-stone but who come off sounding like an bad version of The Libertines. It happens when rock bands alluding... Continue Reading →
I know I bang on about this a bit…a bit too much even, but I tend to be a sucker for music which reminds me of my own sonic ravels through a post-punk heyday…I guess you never shake off the music of your own formative years. I’m not even talking about music which sounds like... Continue Reading →
If you haven’t fallen in love with The Mystery Plan by the mid point of opening salvo Those Stars, then you really should see a doctor, or perhaps even a psychiatrist. How could you not find everything you need in its drifting textures, louche beats and sultry saxophone? If there was a decent bookshop nearby... Continue Reading →
The fact that we are using the term post-punk as a description tells us one of two things. Either it tells us how concisely the term describes a certain type of music or it suggests that it is so vague a term that it doesn’t have any real use. Actually both are true. The term... Continue Reading →
Although their music has been described as “bedroom pop with an edge,” that does seem quite an understatement as I Am a Rocketship seem to draw together inspirations from far wider than the small, self-contained, world which such a phrase might imply. With a new album, Ghost Stories, on its way, My Nature comes on... Continue Reading →