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Something Beginning With L

By Alan Souter • Aug 21st, 2009 • Category: short players

The latest addition to Drift Records impeccable roster, Something Beginning With L, aka Lucy, Jen and Jon, offer up some delightful scuzzy electropop.



Thirty Pounds of Bone

By Alan Souter • Aug 21st, 2009 • Category: short players

So much so has the Thirty Pounds of Bone debut album, ‘The Homesick Children of Migrant Mothers’, never been off my stereo it’s hard to believe it’s been three years since it was cast onto these shores.



Graham Coxon

By Alan Souter • Jun 17th, 2009 • Category: long players

Graham Coxon
The Spinning Top
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So here it is, the seventh solo album from the greatest guitar player of his generation, equaling the amount of long players Blur have in their canon



Doghouse Roses

By Alan Souter • Jan 20th, 2009 • Category: jralbums, long players

This Glasgow based duo’s debut long-player is an absolute gem of a record. Recorded with producer/composer Malcolm Lindsay, who has previously written and arranged for The Delgados and The Willard Grant Conspiracy, it’s an album that relies on the simplest of formulas



Weezer

By Alan Souter • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: long players

If anyone’s after a good laugh you could do a lot worse than getting the new self-titled Weezer record, being dubbed as the Red album due to the sleeve colour that provides the backdrop for the guys to dress up like the Village People (god knows what they were thinking!?!). For those of you that [...]