Timed nicely to coincide with the UK tour she announced yesterday, BANKS has given us a further glimpse of her upcoming debut album Goddess by streaming new track ‘Beggin For Thread’. Like the previously released title track, ‘Waiting Game’, ‘Brain’ and ‘Drowning’, ‘Beggin For Thread’ has the dark and smoky atmosphere but is a little…
Vinyl sales are booming. According to the British Phonographic Industry (or BPI for short), sales of vinyl records hit their highest level last year since 1997. Over 780,000 vinyls were sold in 2013 – which was double the amount sold in 2012 and over 270% more than were sold five years ago. If the trend continues at…
Gorillaz – On Melancholy Hill Although their ambitious plans to take third album Plastic Beach around the world got off to a slow start at Glastonbury, the summer is turning out to be quite successful for Damon Albarn and his trusty band of Gorillaz. Taking on Glastonbury’s Friday headline slot at heroically short notice may…
The Cast Of Cheers – Family [rating:3.5/5] Buy: Family If you like your hooks infectious, your melodies punchy and your guitar lines sharp, then you’ll like Dublin quartet The Cast Of Cheers’ debut album Family. Probably a lot. Previous singles ‘Family’ and ‘Animals’ showcased their talent for propulsive, attention-grabbing indie-pop songs, and the album wastes…
Australia’s foremost purveyors of ‘psychedelic hypno-groove melodic rock music’ (their words!) Tame Impala have today unveiled the lead single from their highly anticipated second album Lonerism. ‘Elephant’ is a stomping slice of chilled out melodica, sounding not unlike Kasabian covering The Beatles (it does in my head anyway!) Check it out here: ‘Elephant’ follows the…
Remember when The Killers were exciting? I do too, but the memory’s getting dimmer and dimmer with every U2/Springsteen apeing ‘stadium-rock’ pile of toss they release. Maybe you like that kind of thing though, if so you may also want to watch the video for ‘epic’ and ‘passionate’ new single ‘Runaways’: ‘Runaways’ is the first…
Jamie T is well and truly back people! His new single ‘Don’t You Find’ – his first new material in nearly five years – just got it’s debut on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show, and now the singer has revealed the video for it. Watch the video below: First impressions? It’s amazing. It’s not exactly…
Passion Pit – ’Gossamer’ [rating:3/5] Buy: Gossamer If you enjoyed the wildly infectious melodies and modern pop sensibilities of Passion Pit’s 2009 debut Manners, then there’s plenty in second album Gossamer to keep you interested. ‘Take A Walk’ and ‘I’ll Be Alright’, the first two tracks to emerge from Gossamer, are everything that’s great about…
I never realised how much I’d missed Canadian electro-noiseniks Crystal Castles until this popped up online today. The duo have been pretty low-key recently, holed up recording album number three, so it’s great to finally hear some new stuff from them. Check out ‘Plague’ here and let me know what you think… Now that’s atmospheric!…
After announcing details of her upcoming second album Tough Love, and streaming the title track, modern soul star Jessie Ware has put another new track online. This one is called ‘Share It All’ and is reportedly set to feature on the deluxe version of Tough Love. It’s a smooth, seductive RnB ballad that was co-written…
