EP REVIEW Artist: Gary Maginnis and The Like EP: Ghost Town Blues Website : garymaginnis.com This EP is billed as being about ‘what is happening in the world today’, and while it is appropriately bleak, it’s also a very subdued album for the most part. That’s not entirely a bad thing – itContinue Reading
SINGLE REVIEW Artist: Alexandra Jayne Single: Foolish Website: alexandrajaynemusic.com Listening to Alexandra Jayne on record is quite a different experience to hearing her perform live. Live, the demands of holding an audience’s attention require exactly the kind of all-out vocal power that Alexandra has in spades. On record, though, one gets to hearContinue Reading
ALBUM REVIEW Artist: Tom George Album: Postcards Website: tomgeorgearts.com The key to a good album is to be both eclectic and cohesive, and paradoxical as it sounds, that’s exactly what Tom George achieves on ‘Postcards’. Opening track ‘Drifter’ has that wonderful, dreamy, jangly quality of the Stone Roses at their mostContinue Reading
EP REVIEW Artist: Silent Cities EP: Eigenlicht Website: wherethesilentcitieshide.com I’m going to go ahead and assume that if you’re branding your music as ‘experimental’, you’ll take my calling it ‘weird’ as a compliment. ‘Eigenlicht’ is definitely both experimental and weird. The title, by the way, is a word for the greyishContinue Reading
