This man is just astounding. It feels as though Lady’s Bridge just came out, but here he is already with new – and gorgeous – material. The video features a reflective Richard in black & white, looking like a combination of Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. He sings of love and regret, emotions he seems [...]

Another freaky video from one of the great purveyors of the strange and unusual. This is probably her most straightforward/accessible track on her debut. In fact, I’m surprised this wasn’t one of the first singles released from it. That’s not to say it isn’t infused with that special sort of otherworldliness that’s part and parcel [...]

George Pringle, George Pringle where to start? Some of you may find it total nonsense. You see that’s the great thing about music – it divides opinion and sparks emotion. For me she is an amazing leftfield talent, reminding me of a minimalistic version of say Polly Scattergood.

Not content to be discovered she has self-released [...]

One of the pleasures of being able to write is to share what’s rocking your musical taste buds. The Temper Trap have been rocking my world all summer. I’m pretty sure that they will be rocking yours pretty soon, too. Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, they have been trawling the Summer Festival circuit. They have shades [...]

Over the past year or more I’ve come to think of The Joy Formidable as ‘The little band that could’. They popped up seemingly out of nowhere, blew us away with ‘Austere’, revived dreamy female-fronted guitar pop, and delivered one of the best albums of the year with A Balloon Called Moaning. It’s cliche and [...]