Twenty-four-year-old Bristolian electronic artist and producer Henry Green returns to the fray with the bittersweet electronic pop of Half Light, his long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s acclaimed Shift. In the world of the arts, many successful practitioners perfect the knack of being stationary, remaining in a comfort zone and sticking to what works. The ease of falling into … [Read more...] about Henry Green: Half Light – Album Review
Phoebe Bridgers: Punisher – Review
Twenty-five-year-old Californian singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers more than matches the emotional candour and poetic flourishes of her 2017 debut, Stranger In The Alps, with another nourishing, unflinching and authoritative cluster of wry tales of modern discomfort and heartbreak. In the space of just a few years, the Californian folk-rocker Phoebe Bridgers has laid down … [Read more...] about Phoebe Bridgers: Punisher – Review
Gia Margaret: Mia Gargaret – Review
The ‘sleep rock’ singer reinvents herself as an ambient sound sculptor on her predominantly instrumental follow-up to the acclaimed song cycle, There’s Always a Glimmer, offering music as a healing process and solace from uncertainty. Gia Margaret patented the genre of ‘sleep rock’ in 2018 with her quietly devastating debut, There’s Always a Glimmer, a lo-fi collection of … [Read more...] about Gia Margaret: Mia Gargaret – Review
Bibio: Sleep On The Wing – Review
Bibio, the king of folktronica, serves a calming, carefree and largely instrumental reprieve from our current calamities with his latest sojourn into wyrd folk pastoral. On his eleventh album as Bibio, the Wolverhampton native Stephen Wilkinson continues to bottle the hazy serenity essayed on last year’s bucolic Ribbons, a comforting cocktail of arpeggiated guitar and … [Read more...] about Bibio: Sleep On The Wing – Review
Belle and Sebastian: Days of the Bagnold Summer (OST) – Review
Belle and Sebastian hark back to former glories on their bewitching score for Simon Bird’s sweet and understated slice of life, Days of the Bagnold Summer. Over the course of almost a quarter of a century, the veteran Glaswegian indie-poppers Belle and Sebastian have provided a reassuring ballast for alienated, bookish and sensitive teenagers everywhere. Both small and big … [Read more...] about Belle and Sebastian: Days of the Bagnold Summer (OST) – Review
Brigid Mae Power: Head Above the Water – Review
The Irish singer-songwriter’s third album slips drowsy psychedelia and laconic country into her folk-rooted songwriting; the broader palette makes for a gloriously self-contained and accessible soundscape which decorates the quotidian in coats of grandeur and gravity. Brigid Mae Power’s regal, folk-oriented sound is notoriously elusive and ambiguous: she can be … [Read more...] about Brigid Mae Power: Head Above the Water – Review