Because a string quartet is at the heart of this affirmation of Martyn Bennett, Aye doesn’t always do justice to the rip-roaring dynamism that marked the career of this folk, jazz, classical and techno experimentalist. Mr McFall’s Chamber guide the evening, occasionally including relevant pieces from their own oeuvre and ushering master piper Frasier Fifield [...]
On the one hand, Kathryn Williams’ album with Neil MacColl is one of her weaker sets- it falls between a retreat into folkiness and a vague stab at the sort of light pop that Belle and Sebastian have reinvented. On the other, Williams’ exquisite vocals and MacColl’s confident multi-instrumentalism combined to make an album that [...]
These three albums represent the collected works to date of Euro-pop celebrities BWO. Massive in Europe- especially Sweden and Russian- they have been the vehicle for sexual politician and social theorist Alexander Bard, influencing the wave of Nordic pop electronic that is now seeing UK success.
Is it just sentimentality that makes the return of The Breeders more important than any of the latest albums from the latest bands? Does Mountain Battles really have greater depth, more intense rockers and more left-field experimentation than all of the hip indie releases of the past year? And what does it say about the [...]
Unlike so many Scottish Americana bands – and there are many of them – The Galipaygos have a terrible name and a real grasp of Appalachian style picking: behind the apparent poppy gloss of ‘Shift Patterns’ or the folky ‘Man About the House’ there is a rippling, shimmering background of acoustic guitar or banjo. Perhaps [...]
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