These New Puritans are back, this time with an album that sounds like the music you’d hear in a near death experience; the elevator music of purgatory. If Beat Pyramid sounded like an off-the-rails life of sin, Hidden like a dark guilt-trip induced by the Catholic church, Fields…
Over the last year, everything about Savages seems to have been generating excitement; their striking post-punk sound, legendary live performances and circulating rumours that they’re physically incapable of smiling. Highly anticipated, their debut album Silence Yourself has now been released. They’ve been compared most frequently to bands such as…
In 2009 Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix propelled Phoenix from being a relatively cult band to one of France’s most internationally successful artists. Now, in 2013, they seem to have stared at their metaphorical piles of gold and felt slightly nauseated. The band claim the philosophy behind their new album…
“Gospel-delia” is the rather ham-fisted label which some commentators have pinned to Laura Mvula’s music. Her brand of slick, soulful R&B is heavily drenched in jazz and hand-clappy gospel beats, beautifully constructed layer by layer with simple, complimentary elements which slot together like the pieces of a puzzle.…
In a recent track review for Drowned In Sound, Robert Leedham described “Ya Hey”, the third new cut from Modern Vampires of the City, as a ‘euphoric cocktail’ overflowing with ‘truly upsetting brilliance’ which touched that writer in a deeply personal way. Leedham’s experience with religious belief had…
Let’s talk about the title: The Terror. Is it a political statement? A commentary on the state of world affairs? Is Wayne Coyne – the band’s eccentric frontman – ruminating on a personal catastrophe? In trying to encompass everything, it encompasses very little. Contemplate how audacious, thrilling and…
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