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I often find myself drawn to certain songs because of the mood that they create. Cigarettes After Sex is such a prime example of this in each of their…

Londoner Daniel O’Sullivan seems to pop in and out of the scene in recent years. He made a studio and a live album in 2011 and a few other…

Somebody listening for the first time to Duke Garwood would probably react by saying that he sounds a lot like Mark Lanegan. Very late night Mark…

On October 30th, 2015 The Neighbourhood released their sophomore album entitled The Neighbourhood is a group that has historically evoked a strong…

Eleanor Friedberger is known as a vocalist of the band The Fiery Furnaces. The band released eight albums that were pretty successful in American…

Magazines like the British music monthlies “Uncut” and “Mojo” have a tradition of including a music CD since their inception. Usually, whether it is…

“Death is real, someone’s there, and then they’re not”, echoes the beginning of Mount Eerie’s latest and long awaited album since his wife’s passing…

It’s been three years since The Strokes dropped their full-length album. I took this intermezzo between releases to forget that the album…

For some generations that are “somewhat” older, holding a physical object containing music is still an essential element of the…

PledgeMusic has been a resource many a musician has been using recently to make sure that their work sees the light of day and then promoted further.…

If you don’t like what MGMT or The Flaming Lips currently have to offer, then reject their work and embrace Temples. I promise you are not…

William Merriman has been behind the quietly sophisticated Dublin band The Harvest Ministers for some thirty years now. Even though it doesn’t seem…

  After several critically acclaimed EPs, Matt Corby made a decision to dedicate his time to soul, gospel, jazz and psychedelic and create a…

Favorite Americana players, known for their dreamy sounds, are finally back. Seven years after releasing the Snowlake Midnight and Strange Attractor,…

Earl Grey is a popular but finicky tea to make. If you don’t let it stand long enough, it has a bland taste: if you let it stand too long, it becomes…

What can you get when you combine one of the most intriguing musicians that appeared in the past few years on Australian independent scene and…

Female authors with guitars are becoming a frequent thing. And it’s good that this is the case. Every day, I discover a new name, no matter what the…

The first moment you encounter the music of Coti K.,“The Man From Managra”, a Greek guy form the Island of Tinos, you would be hard pressed to say…

Labels are for brands, not for bands. Show me on this review how much do you agree with the previous statement. Even though they present themselves as…

When King Gizzard & The Lizzard Wizzard announced that they will issue five albums this year, even their fans (myself included), who were…

Pete Fij and Terry Bickers - never heard? Well, if you are a close follower of all things music, particularly the late Eighties and early Nineties…

I am constantly amazed by the hidden gems of South African music. Although increasingly less hidden and deservedly so, Oddo Bam’s first EP,…

When you bruise a diamond like Lost In The Dreams, it is clear that you signed up in the history of music books. Adam Granduciel may not even need…

I’m old enough to remember the times before any Internet (yeah, that old) with what would be now considered scant information about any new and…

A lot of complaints about the second The Proper Ornaments album Foxhole. It seems to come from the same quarters that didn’t like the way…

Ok, so the girl (Zoe) is from Montreal and the boy (Nicola) is from Venice, where should they meet and what will the music they make sound like? Th…

Through the 5+1 solo albums he has made so far, Greg Ashley has shown that if you are to fit into the shoes of guys like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lou…

There is something I call music depression. It is an episode that lasts for several months during which the ‘’the patient’’ is unable to find new…

The name of the band is Kikagaku Moyo, or for those who do not know Japanese, like me, Geometric Patterns. Luckily, judging by this, their third album…

Music magazines often use the term Wooden music when they want to describe the type of music that I am about to review. It stands for the following:…

Mark Olson, one of the original co-founders of The Jayhawks is back with a new album, and although he is credited as “the head of the bill”,…

In this age of information glut, whether it is the number of music titles available or the method by which you can reach them, it is so easy for quite…

If we take a look at the history of music, we can chronologically determine how the geographical focus of pop-rock industry was shifting. In the 50s,…

The Ruby Suns can either be a shifting conglomerate or just Ryan McPhun, a guy around whom the whole band and its musical idea revolve around. That…

Can you hear the sound of the summer? If not, you will hear it now. French synth-pop collective Phoenix decided to be a herald of the upcoming summer…

In the world of country music, prison was always one of the places from which an artist can develop perspective which would reflect in lyrics…

It seems to me that I am beginning almost every second review with the observation that many singers and bands are creating records bursting from…