In a recent popjustice.com interview it was a shock to see Hadouken! frontman James Smith lose any shred of musical mystique when he started talking about how ‘the wider public view you by...
No matter how much studio trickery is employed these days, the difference between a turd and a diamond is still glaringly obvious, something that The Wave Pictures’ (official) debut proves...
It’s reductive and plain wrong to call Crystal Castles’ debut album ‘techno-metal’, ‘eight-bit noise terror’, or any of those other glib descriptions...
Another week, another brilliant husband and wife duo; this time a drummer and a vocal improv graduate who hail from Sweden, probably don’t wear shoes, and make intense, minimal blues-folk...
The makers of ‘cosmetics for the young sophisticate’ must be relishing the prospect of all the free exposure about to be Googled their way. Mrs Ritchie’s follow-up to 2005’s...
Padding softly after ‘Black Habit’, the recent album from labelmates Rings, comes this debut from Philly’s future-popster cum experimental electronicist, Annie Sachs. It’s...
A French couple who love Gainsbourg almost as much as they love each other and capture their moments of transitory passion in brooding black and white photography, John And Jehn may sound like a...
Whether it’s because of their frontman’s pomposity-puncturing intellect, discourteous way with an acceptance speech, or striking resemblance to a pimply young Gelfling, it’s...
Sounding like you might expect a collective whose key members met at the Green Man Festival to do, The Accidental are a lesson in super-friendly, shaggy-dog bonhomie. Much of this warm, easy...
Cruising down the autobahn at night, their headlights on low beam and with an almost ‘Duel’ like purpose in their minds come kosmische/drone/space-rock proponents Kip Uhlhorn (ex of...
