From Antonio Forcione’s fretless Ouddan to the 19-year-old busker who recently became a YouTube hit by playing ‘The Final Countdown’ on a cross between a piano, a ukelele and a...
The signs for this much-talked-about debut were very promising. For starters, it’s produced by TV On The Radio chap Dave Sitek, whose every production credit (Scarlett Johanssen excepted) has...
Harry, Charles and Jack sound as if they might go on holiday to Devon together, get into all sorts of scrapes and drink lashings of ginger beer. In fact, dark, decidedly adult thoughts prey on...
People often talk about Anthony Hegarty’s ‘otherwordly’ quality, by which we suspect they’re not just trying to describe that uniquely tremulous tenor (today we think he...
Usually, the record that takes up this particular slot is reviewed here because it’s especially excellent, culturally newsworthy or has such a high profile that we can’t ignore it even...
The arrival in our lives, bleak mid-winter, of Vermont-based Canadian Koushik Ghosh could hardly be more welcome. At a time when we are all forced to rug up like Michelin men, lest we meet a...
It seems like Jamie bangs out one of these croonological voyages around this time every year. Perhaps he has a wedding anniversary in January and penning smooth-soul ‘Mr Loverman’...
The cover of ‘Lambs Anger’, which will delight fans of ‘Un Chien Andalou’ as much as it dismays fans of Flat Eric, is a fitting statement of intent. Oizo’s debut album...
History weighs heavily on this collection of gospel a cappella. In the 1940s, and again in the ’50s, folklorist Alan Lomax stopped by the small town of Como, Panola County, to document the...
