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Metaphorest

By • May 3rd, 2012 • Category: jrbig, long players

Metaphorest is the stage name of Irish singer-songwriter-guitarist Sarah Daly. On the basis of this album, it’s fair to say that comparisons could be made to both Joanna Newsom and Kate Bush



Seamus Fogarty

By • Apr 23rd, 2012 • Category: jrbig, long players

Googling Seamus Fogarty, not surprisingly, the Fence label comes up.



Grinderman

By • Apr 4th, 2012 • Category: long players

In early 2006, I saw Nick Cave at the Edinburgh Playhouse. Although it was billed as being a Nick Cave solo show – and technically, it was not a full Bad Seeds line-up



Soap&Skin

By • Apr 2nd, 2012 • Category: long players

Soap&Skin is the work of one Anja Plaschg, an Austrian lass barely out of her teens. This eight track album is barely half an hour long, and fantastic as it is



Kelvox1

By • Apr 1st, 2012 • Category: long players

Kelvox1 are a three-piece from Cambridge. According to the helpful press release sent along with Grazed Red, James, Tom and David use ’synths, sampler, voice, guitar, bass ‘and other useful objects that happen to be at hand.’ Honest to God, I swear some of these appear to sound like scissors being er, scissored… This is [...]