The following are a selection of the EPs, mini-albums and mixes that impressed in 2014. L.D.C.N – Summer Rain “L.D.C.N’s electronic soundscapes are subtly woven from found sounds and samples. Louie is a cyber...
Category - Albums
2014 has been a strange year for music. I can’t quite put my finger on what it was precisely about the last 12 months that I found strange. In the main, I struggled to connect with many of the albums. There...
Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes Words Tom Spooner Thom Yorke has just released an album. By ‘just’ I mean within the last few hours. It is available here as a BitTorrent download and costs just £3.68. It...
Stereocilia – Murmurations A murmuration is a “low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech.” It can also refer to a murmuration of starlings...
The Best EPs, Mini-Albums, Mix Tapes and DJ Mixes of 2013 in no particular order D-Pat – In Bloom In Bloom by Dpat Chance the Rapper – Acid Rap Frog – Frog Ofei –...
Here are my Best Albums of 2013… 1. Jai Paul – Leak “Music that sparks and fizzes, jumps around, disorientates, effervesces with playfulness. It is also deeply funky, sensual and soulful. It is quite...
Having been at the helm of Nottingham’s burgeoning music scene for more than a few years now, it seems remarkable and more than a little selfish that FISTS have only just got round to committing their schizophrenic lo-fi...
It is fitting that the release of Moondog coincides with the 25th anniversary of the birth of BritPop. The Wiltshire three-piece owes much to the movement – there are the familiar 60s harmonies, guitar solos and organ all...
Nottingham band and Spoonster Spouts Ones to Watch FISTS have finally released details of their long awaited and much anticipated debut album. The LP entitled Phantasm will be released on July 8th through the brilliant Hello...
Alec Ounsworth is the lead singer with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! Sadly, his band have been slipping deeper into mediocrity since the fascinating sonic experience of 2007’s Some Loud Thunder. Given the brilliance of the...