If all music could sound as crystal clear as this, it makes you wonder whether Young’s Pono portable music player was such a ridiculous idea. For Storytone, Young recruited a John Williams sized orchestra – […]
Selective Hearing w/ Ben Klock, Pariah and South London Ordnance
Selective Hearing, a Leeds and Manchester collective that provides the finest techno, house and base, last week brought a deliriously superb lineup to one of Leeds’ most popular student stomping grounds, The Warehouse. This lineup […]
Gold Sounds Festival @ Brudenell Social Club 23/11
Under overcast skies on Sunday, the Brudenell Social Club began to fill up with people eager for Gold Sounds: a festival only in its second incarnation, that still brought in some of the most interesting […]
Under the influence
The rise of popular music in the past sixty years has caused an overlapping of influences upon artists and even our own musical tastes. Take the music your parents listen to, or music you listened […]
In The Middle with Sect
The short history of Sect is one of the ebb and flow of good fortune. Having been approached by Beat Bar mere weeks after coming up with the idea for a small experimental techno night […]
Weekly Chart w/3rd Dec 14
1. Osaka Monaurail – Hung – Up Label: Unique Laidback but tight Funk 7”; perfect early-hours material, its strung-out strut sure to draw people towards the dancefloor. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Sabu Martinez – Hotel Alyssa-Soussie, Tunisia Label: Grammofonoverket […]
Band Aid 30 – is it really as beneficial as it seems?
Saturday the 16th saw the broadcast of Band Aid 30 on the X Factor Results show; Bob Geldof’s latest charitable act is attempting to raise money for the current epidemic of the Ebola virus in […]
Hookworms Live Review
In merely fifty-five minutes, an eclectic combination of synth-heavy psychedelia and dark, ethereal shoegaze was enough to leave myself, and a sold out Brudenell Social Club, left entranced by the Leeds quintet. Performing at the […]
Loscil ‘Sea Island’ Album Review
Being successful making ambient music is tricky. There are no real catchy hooks, there isn’t much – if anything – to sing along to, and it’s often difficult to differentiate artists by sound alone. Vancouver-based […]
In The Middle with Slaves
Having heard the arrogant and brash charms of their earlier records, I would never have expected Slaves to be made up of two smartly dressed, knowledgeable artists. This two-piece ‘punk’ (or what people like to […]
Bryan Ferry ‘Avonmore’ Album Review
I’ve always thought Bryan Ferry’s music sounds like the score of the Miami vice TV show. The brooding ‘Loop de Li’ with its snippets of saxophone and funk guitars and the action-film lyrics of “I’m […]
TV On The Radio ‘Seeds’ Album Review
Flicking through the album notes to Seeds, one particular absentee catches my attention. There’s no mention of bassist Gerard Smith, who tragically passed away shortly after the release of Nine Types of Light in 2011. […]