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Up-and-coming shoegaze outfit *crush* are known for their heartfelt and penetrating brand of shoegaze mixed with elements of 80s alternative pop and even jazz-inspired indie. Hailing from Manchester, the band just released their latest single ‘All My Plants Are Dead’ on May 1st of May. ‘All My Plants Are Dead’ is a bittersweet yet discordant... Continue Reading →
If he as trying to create nothing other than a wonderfully chilled, dance-infused, mellow vibes, pop song, Olivier Herràn the man behind Dreams of Orion would have succeeded with room to spare. But the fact that he has claimed that the music has a higher purpose means that perhaps the music needs to tick certain... Continue Reading →
Cover albums are usually met with people turning up their noses, add to that the musical choice is a covers album made up of Abba songs and you’ve alienated a large portion of your potential audience. Abba seems to split audiences, in my opinion it’s into three categories, the first are the fans who love... Continue Reading →
Space, the iconic TV soundbite reminded us, was the final frontier. It still is. And that goes for music too. Too many artists feel the need to fill every inch of their musical canvas with sonic paint, that is the fill every part of their song with additional melodies, extra musical texture and unnecessary musical... Continue Reading →
There seem to be plenty of country crooners wandering around the charts these days but whereas most seem to be some sort of earnest, all-American type with a beard, a pickup truck and a broken heart, Matthew Austin Hunt actually seems more authentic than those cliched images. Instead his style is more believable, more natural,... Continue Reading →
It is often the case that you can listen to a release from a forthcoming album and that song acts as a sort of sonic roadmap, a stylistic signpost as to what the fully formed beast is going to be all about. What was great about Hillbilly Hippie Haiku Heaven was that after experiencing its... Continue Reading →
Not to take anything away from the music but when you have a song with such great vocal dynamics, ones that remind you of Leigh Nash from Sixpence None the Richer, that in itself is enough to sell the song. Well, it worked for me. All too often a singer seems to be just going... Continue Reading →
When a song sounds simultaneously cutting edge and here and now, and retro-vibed and steeped in the classic sounds from a pervious era, you know that a lot of thought has gone into it. Repackaging and re-selling the past to a newer, younger audience has always been a common theme in music, it is the... Continue Reading →
Silver linings are where you find them and if anyone is going to find the positive in all the negatives of the current lockdown it is B Freed. Always looking forward, always about the evolution, the learning curve, the chance to learn, here he welds some quite poignant questions to the sort of white-hot, boogie-blues-rock... Continue Reading →