Single Reviews – 14 October Guest reviewer Philip Lickley takes us through his pick of the coming weeks top single releases. Calvin Harris feat. Florence Welch – ’Sweet Nothing’ [rating:1.5/5] Buy: Sweet Nothing Harris’ sixth single from an album that isn’t even out yet, ‘Sweet Nothing’ shows signs of his magic wearing off. Over an…
Kings Of Leon Come Around Sundown With their last album, 2008’s Only By The Night, the family Leon moved away from their scratchy but inventive indie-rock roots and embraced the arena band approach, producing a slicker, more universal and radio-friendly album. As we all know, this gave them a massive hit – Only By The…
Salford duo GREATWAVES have been floating around the blogosphere for a while now, and are making a name for themselves as one of the best new bands for serene, hypnotic and powerful ‘nu-gaze’. After releasing their debut single ‘The Shore’ earlier this year, they have decided to release follow-up ‘Feel The Love’ as a free…
Bat For Lashes – The Haunted Man {rating} Buy: The Haunted Man When you’ve been nominated for an Ivor Novello award and your first two albums have been nominated for a Mercury Award, the creative pressure to deliver a career-defining masterpiece of a third album must be pretty overwhelming. Add in your own personal pressure…
Still no word on a debut album from mysterious Mancunian electro-poppers NO CEREMONY///, but they’ve just posted new track ‘FEELSOLOW’ online – so that’ll have to do for now! As with previous NO CEREMONY/// tracks I’ve featured, ‘HEARTBREAKER’ and ‘HOLDONME’, ‘FEELSOLOW’ is a brilliant, pounding, intense and enveloping slow-burner that continues their growing reputation as…
Two Door Cinema Club have revealed the promo video for their new single ‘Sun’. Watch the JUL&MAT directed video here: ‘Sun’ – released on 19 November – is the second single to be taken from Two Door Cinema Club’s excellent second album Beacon, following on from ‘Sleep Alone’. Two Door Cinema Club are currently touring…
We’re getting ever closer to the 29 October release date of Reflektor, and just to make sure we don’t forget it Arcade Fire have dribbled out another enticing tidbit to keep us all talking. Last night they released the below trailer on Twitter which previews new album track ‘Awful Sound (Oh Erydice)’: Awful Sound http://t.co/g9DaIkJwAP…
Interpol – Interpol When they released debut album Turn On The Bright Lights back in 2002, New York’s Interpol were regarded as the kings of the post-punk movement – intellectual and knowing lyrics combined with jagged guitar lines and atmospheric soundscapes to create an early contender for album of the decade. Since then, the law…
Former Oasis front-man Liam Gallagher’s clothing range, Pretty Green, is planning to launch its first dedicated club night in London next month. The event, scheduled for 26 November, will be at HMV’s Relentless Garage in North London – tickets are available now from the Pretty Green site. Liam’s Beady Eye bandmate Andy Bell will be…
Electronic pioneers Autechre have made their brand new EP ‘L-event’ available to stream for a limited time. The EP is set for release on 28 October and is the first new material from the Warp Records legends. Being the trailblazing boundary-pushers that they are, Autechre have come up with a slightly different take on the…
