Review

Denise Sherwood creates a beautifully contrasting and inventive record around a coming of age mentality on This Road. Denise Sherwood, daughter of On-U Sound dub legend Adrian, was always going to be influenced by music. With a youth spent in and around studios, learning from talented musicians, and featuring on backing vocals for big names such as Sinaead O’connor and … [Read more...] about Denise Sherwood: This Road – Album Review

Bushwick Blooze Band unleash the powerful and gently building Lonely and Blue, showing off their love of classic blues. Blues will never die. There’s just so much emotional turmoil invested in it that people love to get lost in. The Brooklyn-based Bushwick Blooze Band knows this is the case and are content to offer up that classic blues sound with powerful rhythms, steady … [Read more...] about Bushwick Blooze Band: Lonely and Blue – Single Review

Alt-rock veteran Tanya Donelly hooks up with a majestic strings and harmony combo to tackle classic, heavy-rotation songs in fine, magisterial style on their self-titled collaboration. There are occasions in music when great moments spring to life by happenstance; ‘Tanya Donelly and The Parkington Sisters’, an impromptu project born out of a chance meeting at a local gig, … [Read more...] about Tanya Donelly and The Parkington Sisters – Review

The Jaded Hearts Club, a supergroup formed purely for a birthday party, release their debut album You’ve Always Been Here. But was it worth continuing the party further or is it just a bad hangover? Supergroups have always been a strange phenomenon. Sometimes they work but more often than not they’re a short-lived gimmick. The Jaded Hearts Club (a band group consisting of … [Read more...] about The Jaded Hearts Club: You’ve Always Been Here – Review

It’s hard to dislike Aloe Blacc’s music when most of the songs on All Love Everything touch on universally positive tropes: warm nostalgia, gentle but grounded melodies and good vibes in bucketloads. While this signature brand of inoffensive, soulful pop has guaranteed widespread appeal, it’s also hard to be overly enthused by a whole album of it given that many of the … [Read more...] about Aloe Blacc: All Love Everything – Review

Indefatigable, LA-based provocateur, singer-songwriter, renaissance man and queer icon Seth Bogart rounds up a coterie of chums and conspires to create heady, glammy anthems of reverb-laden garage-rock and summery jangle that’s easy on the ear and socio-politically savvy. The flamboyant Seth Bogart’s eponymous debut in 2016 was a critically revered breakthrough for the West … [Read more...] about Seth Bogart: Men on the Verge of Nothing – Review