Without Jamie T and Kate Nash’s patronage, this willowy voiced 17-year-old would’ve been gigging for years before recording this album. But while you suspect it’s all been written...
José James may look every inch the suave, cool, neo-soul jazz star that he most certainly is, but there’s more going on behind those quietly meditative eyes than you may care to...
Discussion among TO’s music team has taken an angry turn of late as we pitch those bands we think should be huge against those who are. For a start, Let’s Wrestle do a proverbial do-do...
If this fourth album from LA’s oddrockers can sound so noisily exuberant and luminous in colour, we fear for the sanity of people hunting down the others. Chucking everything but kitchen sink...
Some things never date – Red Tab 501s, Buster Keaton’s slapstick, the dry martini and super-slow, heavy-riffing, psych/ drone rock with subsonic bass. Of course, it helps that...
An album involving an extended version of ‘Der Erlkönig’, Goethe’s hallucinatory treatment of child death, is unlikely to make for easy listening – especially, you...
Genre magpies Hot Chip are, philosophically at least, London’s equivalent to LCD Soundsystem (which makes it less surprising that guitarist Al Doyle moonlights in James Murphy’s live...
McCombs’ 2002 ‘Not The Way’ EP promised much, his roughly hewn songs vulnerable and evocative of a damaged America, like Elliott Smith or Sufjan. But his two follow-up albums...
With their preppy severity and Fall-influenced name, These New Puritans could easily be mistaken for the next in the seemingly endless line of post-punk revivalists. This would be slightly unfair....
In their four LPs to date, Washington DC’s heavy psych-rock trio have never failed to bring out the meat-headed Beavis in us, for which we give effusive thanks. Now, however, they’ve...
