ALBUM REVIEW – WEVAL: CHOROPHOBIA

“Rhythm’s deep within, strap in for what’s right.” POP QUIZ TIME: don’t worry it’ll be a short one, but very quickly, could you define the term “Chorophobia”? If you said it’s the fear of dancing, you’d be correct! Unfortunately, I have no prize to hand out, so instead take a powerful sense of pride with […]

ALBUM REVIEW – GHOSTWOMAN: WELCOME TO THE CIVILIZED WORLD

Nihilistic, sardonic and world-weary… electric, psych-intoxicated Americana that’s bloodshot-eyed, wounded and dangerous. ‘Welcome to the Civilized World’, the cynically titled fourth album by GHOSTWOMAN, is a record beaten into shape by the unrelenting cruelties of life; knocked down countless times, yet staggering defiantly with a crooked smile, daring anyone who will meet its gaze to […]

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LIVE REVIEW – BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD: MANCHESTER ALBERT HALL – 13/09/25

A young man with long hair stands right at the front of the crowd, centre stage. He sings every word of every song, seeming to conduct the band, his hands as batons. He looks like he got to the Albert Hall about a week before the gig and would have willingly fought anyone in the […]

ALBUM REVIEW – PATRICK WATSON: UH OH

As an exclamation, ‘Uh Oh’ sounds mild, a restrained, almost child-like anticipation of trouble rather than a full-blooded, sweary response to an immediate problem. However, there is nothing half-hearted or childish about Patrick Watson’s ‘Uh Oh’, a sophisticated set of eleven compositions that feel magically alive. The album and its title were inspired by a […]

ALBUM REVIEW – IGORRR: AMEN

Man and machine is a topic that is currently discussed way too often. Nowadays, we have AI chatboxes such as Chatgpt which take up a huge chunk of our time daily. Even though Chatgpt cannot be used for making and recording music, there are different forms of technologies such as drum machines that can be […]

FEATURE: WHO ARE YA – DREAMWAVE – BRISTOL BAND TAKING INSPIRATION FROM THE LIKES OF OSEES, KING GIZZARD, PINK FLOYD, AND ADDING THEIR OWN MELODIC TWISTS TO CREATE A DAZZLING PSYCH ROCK MINDMELT

INTERVIEW: REGENT

ALBUM REVIEW – ALA.NI: SUNSHINE MUSIC

Home is a loose concept. A person’s physical location is not necessarily where their thoughts and emotions are centred. The third album from ALA.NI is a classic example of this paradox. It may have been written in Paris during the freezing winter of 2023 but the impact of a sojourn in Barbados, Grenada (where her […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 12 SEPTEMBER 2025

Rafiq Bhatia                    Environments  Drawing on his jazz background that has previously included collaborations with Arooj Aftab, Ambrose Akinmusire, Dave Douglas, Marcus Gilmore, Mary Halvorson, Billy Hart, Kassa Overall, Cécile McLorin Salvant and more, Bhatia marks his return to improvised music with a trio of trusted friends and collaborators on ‘Environments’. Sydney Minsky Sargeant          Lunga   […]

A QUICK CATCH UP WITH HUNNYBEES

ALBUM REVIEW – WEVAL: CHOROPHOBIA

ALBUM REVIEW – GHOSTWOMAN: WELCOME TO THE CIVILIZED WORLD

LIVE REVIEW – BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD: MANCHESTER ALBERT HALL – 13/09/25

ALBUM REVIEW – PATRICK WATSON: UH OH

INTERVIEW – ROBERT FORSTER

Even though sales may not have matched the critical acclaim, Robert Forster’s career is enviable. Over 45 years since The Go-Betweens’s debut single and nearly 20 years after the tragic early death of Grant McLennan with whom he shared one of the great songwriting partnerships, he has been enjoying a prolific, late period surge and […]

ALBUM REVIEW – IGORRR: AMEN

ALBUM REVIEW – ALA.NI: SUNSHINE MUSIC

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 12 SEPTEMBER 2025

LIVE REVIEW – HAYDEN PEDIGO: ST MICHAELS, ANCOATS- 28/08/2025

ALBUM REVIEW – DAVID FRANKLIN COURTRIGHT: BRUTAL TENDERNESS

An intake of breath is the first sound you hear on David Franklin Courtright’s debut album, Brutal Tenderness, and you’d better take a deep breath of your own – for 35 minutes, the LA-based singer-songwriter will confront you with all his vulnerability, raw and unvarnished, as he searches for inner peace while exploring his queer […]

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 5 SEPTEMBER 2025

Now that it is September, bedlam ensues with numerous quality releases clamouring for attention. Here is our weekly guide. Go Kurosawa   soft shakes       Solo debut from Kikagaku Moya member. Each day, Go would head to the studio, pick up whatever instrument was around and simply play. The process was slow and instinctive. “If something still […]

INTERVIEW: THE TELESCOPES

INTERVIEW – ROBERT FORSTER

ALBUM REVIEW – DAVID FRANKLIN COURTRIGHT: BRUTAL TENDERNESS

ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 5 SEPTEMBER 2025

ALBUM REVIEW – SAINT ETIENNE: INTERNATIONAL

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