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
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The Jaded Hearts Club: You’ve Always Been Here – 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
Aloe Blacc: All Love Everything – 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
Seth Bogart: Men on the Verge of Nothing – 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
Bruton Brutoff – The Ambient, Electronic and Pastoral Sounds of The Bruton Library Catalogue
Trunk Records release Bruton Brutoff, excavating pastoral, hauntological loveliness on their new compilation of music from the Bruton library catalogue. One of the more peculiar by-products of what Simon Reynolds calls ‘retromania’ has been the flood of interest in the enigmatic world of library music amongst avid crate-diggers and connoisseurs of rare booty: predominantly … [Read more...] about Bruton Brutoff – The Ambient, Electronic and Pastoral Sounds of The Bruton Library Catalogue
David Thompson: The Wall – EP Review
David Thompson presents a synth-laden, retro-futuristic sound that is intricate and upbeat on new EP, The Wall. Philadelphia-based Electropop artist David Thompson knows a thing or two about synth-work. Working mainly with an 80s atmosphere but featuring up-to-date production, this allows the artist to mix the old and new in a unique way. New EP The Wall is testament … [Read more...] about David Thompson: The Wall – EP Review