Local, not National
Local Natives – Hummingbird After listening to Hummingbird for the first time, the question for admirers of the melancholy yet orchestralmelodies produced The National and Arcade Fire must be: can you…
F(Eels) a bit familiar
Eels – Wonderful, Glorious Indie rock has a bit of a bad name at the moment. Over the last few years, listeners of avant-garde underground rock have been increasingly lumped…
Villagers – {Awayland}
Villagers struck quite a note with their self-contained, well-written début Becoming A Jackal. He could quite easily have lived off the indie folk crowd, fond of lyrical wit and vulnerability…
Esben and the Witch go darker, denser, deeper
Since the release of their début album Violet Cries this Brighton-based trio have been labelled as ‘gothic’. Their music has always been saturated with dark colourings and sinister themes and…
Everything Everything – Arc
In ten months the music writers for this paper will be settling down in The Turf Tavern to argue over their shortlist for the best pop album of 2013. I’m…
It’s true: Solange Knowles how to sing too
True. Google her name and you’ll find that if you squint, she looks a little bit like Beyoncé. As far as I can tell, the comparison ends there; though Solange…
There is a Sound that Never Goes Out: Oxford’s 80s club night returns
Have you lately taken to wearing ludicrously oversized denim jackets? Formed an unhealthy obsession with shoulder pads? Gobstopper-sized gold earrings been sending you into inappropriate paroxysms of ecstasy? Not to…
