Do yourself a favour and get this in your ears. An ingenious collection of songs. Inventive and intense. That should be enough, right? Okay then… There’s been a great deal made in the run-up to this albums arrival about it being Cathal Coughlan’s first in a decade. It’s not like he’s spent that time twiddling […]
Ten years is a long time in music, so the re-emergence of former Microdisney and Fatima Mansions vocalist and founder Cathal Coughlan may be something of a second coming.
Another month, another single from Cathal Coughlan’s much anticipated (ok, in certain quarters) first album in a decade. Hot on the heels of poptastic title track Song of Co-Aklan, comes ‘Owl In The Parlour’. The song is a swaggering cabaret number. Underpinned by a satisfyingly noisy rumbling groove. Old phone-book tonsils (ask your folks) is […]
BM finally caught up with several acts whose music she has reviewed but never seen live.
p2 CD Arab Strap www.arabstrap.co.uk Dananananaykroyd Dananananaykroyd Blaknoisewhitesoul www.blaknoisewhitesoul.com We Were Promised Jetpacks wewerepromisedjetpacks The Porch Song Anthology www.porchsonganthology.com Scunner www.scunner.net Uncle Fritz www.myspace.com/yourunclefritz Royal Treatment Plant www.myspace.com/royaltreatmentplant Eric Euan www.ericeuan.com Laki Mera www.myspace.com/lakimera chart 1. Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out Of This Country www.camera-obscura.net 2. De Rosa – Mend www.wearederosa.com 3. Belle and […]