This album is amongst the best I have heard so far this year! I’m guessing US readers will already be familiar after it’s summer 2009 release. This sees the light of day in the UK on February 8th. Featuring some pretty impressive collaborations with Emil Nikolaisen, Sujan Stevens, Daniel Smith and Gary Olsen, it was [...]

Fiction’s latest signing is the talented Suffolk singer/songwriter Matthew P. I feel he could well accompany me on many balmy summer nights along with a bottle of wine this year. I get turned onto many solo artists in the same vein as Matthew, few move me as much as this stunning debut E.P.

Matthew will be [...]

So earlier in the week we had Visage and now Heaven 17. How eighties am I going? This is totally brilliant though, Elly delivers a vocal that is very nearly as stunning as Carol Kenyon’s original!

After delving a little deeper I found that Carol provided vocals for such diverse projects as Malcom Mclaren’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ [...]

Welsh rockers Lost prophets have always kind of passed me by until this excellent new album. It seems to me to be a lot more accessible than the previous three studio albums. The Betrayed was recorded in several locations and studios over Los Angeles with several producers. Nothing of note actually came to fruition, eventually [...]

Okay, I know this has been all over the blogs and everyone is dissecting it to death, but I find this stuff totally fascinating. I’m one of those suckers that absolutely loves when Cuse & Lindelof create some new, ridiculous little online puzzle for Losties. I also recognize that there are a lot of people [...]

Belgium duo Jan Paternoster and Dries Van Dijck make up Black Box Revelation. Following up from the debut album Set Your Head On Fire, this new release Silver Threats is another slice of fuzzy, driven garage-rock. It was recorded through mid-2009 at the legendary Konk Studios in London founded by the Kinks’ Ray Davies. Sometimes [...]

I was a child of the punk/new wave era, however my wife has leanings to the early 80’s electronic sound of the new romantics. Right at the forefront of this movement was one Mr Steve Strange who with Rusty Eagen ran the trailblazing Blitz club in London. Still, the roots for Visage came firmly from the [...]