South Wales three-piece Lucius produce an infectious three minutes of throbbing bass, plush guitars and desperate vocals that together feed a chorus you will be singing on the bus on the way home and probably when you wake up the next day. more… “Lucius”
Fourth album from Scottish-American singer songwriter tracing her Celtic and Native American roots in a variety of styles including, wait for it, a Cherokee version of Amazing Grace. more… “Talitha Mackenzie”
Any album stated as recorded in Nashville comes with a set amount of expectation or trepidation, such is the good and bad in the whole Country genre. more… “Dean Owens”
Arizona post-hardcoreists The Bled release their third album complete with quality production polish and precision playing more… “The Bled”
Sunshine Song starts this album off with a driving, pumping bass line and a big, big chorus. From this opening unadulterous pop song Beggan takes us down a route of skiffle and dreamy harmonica folk in the next couple of tracks. more… “Eddie Beggan”
Debut album from alt-country solo artist Mr D from Glasgow who says the best time to listen to this collection of songs is at night and to be fair he is probably right. more… “Mr D”
The press release hails them as possibly one of the next big things to hit our Mp3 players having gained some respectable plaudits form press and radio. Circles is a punchy indie rock moment sitting comfortably alongside The Killers and the like. Well produced, there are enough hooks and intricate guitar parts to grab the ears so it’s no surprise it rises higher than a lot of the guitar bands currently chasing the dream. Second track Dinosaurs is more ciggie lighter-in-the air-moment and disappoints after the galloping Circles. Altogether though there is enough here to suggest you shouldn’t forget the name just yet.
Skatch, a self proclaimed “Ultra Party Power Pop” 5-piece from Birmingham slam out some energetic, well..party pop… for the under 16’s. more… “Skatch”
Folky singer songwriter Crawford Smith from Glasgow releases his first EP of stand up and strum acoustic tracks. more… “Crawford Smith”