A self-styled ‘jazz devil’, Barry Adamson is as noir as you can get without actually being ‘The Big Sleep’. He called his brilliant 1999 LP ‘The Murky World Of Barry...
With less range than a battery-powered Hummer, Kate Jackson’s voice shares the wooden spoon award for disservices to indie with her band’s clunky way with an instrument, a disability...
Too few records sound like they were really, outrageously fun to make. Happily, the third album from French multi-instrumentalist Camille Dalmais is not such a record. A joyful, breathless affair,...
Would that more musicians thought like Kim Deal, the funny and frank Breeders linchpin. ‘I don’t think prolificness is equal to quality at all,’ she said recently. ‘I would...
There’s a world of difference between getting the royal hump and storming off, and simply counting your losses and moving on. Twenty-seven-year-old west Londoner Estelle Swaray did very much...
Album number five from the Akron, Ohio raw blues duo finds ’em working with Danger Mouse, and ‘Strange Times’ is a thrilling testament to their working synergy. The band’s...
It starts, they said, with an earthquake. But for a while it looked like it would end with a whimper. REM’s last three albums, as any pub expert will tell you, reflected a post-Bill Berry...
Hailing from Eel Pie Island and bred on ’70s prog rock, when the Mystery Jets released their debut album in 2006 its chief appeal was their charming sense of adventure: one part King Crimson,...
We would put money on the fact that the first time you heard that fat, thrillingly fuzz-coated, primal, garage-blues guitar riff belching from your wireless, you cocked an ear and thought,...
Well, we’ve finally exhausted our supply of geometric analogies so let’s hope that indie music takes a turn for the funky sometime soon. Dark-hearted artrockers Foals, for their part,...
