Even before a note was heard it is fair to say we were fascinated with the idea and story behind The Birthday Poems, the recent new album from Chris Connelly and Monica Queen. It is a collection of tracks creating… Read More ›
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The Gorstey Lea Street Choir – …from Prince’s Park to Farsley – Volume I
Having seriously enjoyed recent singles, Bluebird, Hollywood… Domino and That Chitty Bang Majik, there was no denying we had nurtured real intrigue to explore the new album from The Gorstey Lea Street Choir and fair to say …from Prince’s Park… Read More ›
The Great Leap Forward – Revolt Against An Age of Plenty
As the glories and adventures of life can provide the richest pleasures similarly so too the simple act of pressing play can provide such life affirming moments, experiences which come thick and fast within Revolt Against An Age of Plenty…. Read More ›
Distant Voices – Long Road To Home
As the Covid pandemic and indeed Brexit over in this particular continent seem hell bent on preventing normality and freedom returning in any previous sense, UK’s Distant Voices give us a memory of what was available before with debut album… Read More ›
Cathal Coughlan – Song Of Co-Aklan
The co-founder of seminal bands Microdisney and one of our all-time favourites The Fatima Mansions, Cathal Coughlan has been an artist and songwriter who has and never will tick the boxes of convention and predictability. Though praise and acclaim has… Read More ›
Fred Abong – Our Mother of Perpetual Help
A release which you may have missed upon its unveiling yet proving one of the most compelling encounters of 2020 is the latest album from singer songwriter Fred Abong. Raw yet accomplished, dark but with an infectious lustre, Our Mother… Read More ›
Oh OK – The Complete Reissue
As much as we search and hunger for new sounds and inspirations, artists and records which tempt and provoke with something freshly striking, there is a just as instinctive and greedy an appetite for past pleasures which were maybe missed… Read More ›
American Culture – For My Animals
Continuing their ear gripping trend of enlivening the world with fascinating propositions past and new, HHBTM Records, bring us For My Animals, the new album from American Culture, a band which is DIY bred, diversity fuelled, and unpredictability shod. The… Read More ›
2021: A new year, fresh sounds
Firmly in the hands of a new year but equally the less welcoming restrictions and isolations of the last 12 months, we also immediately found ourselves in the face of some stunning and exciting encounters in the shape of… Read More ›
Davey Woodward & The Winter Orphans – Love and Optimism
Having been thickly taken with the singles Warm Hands and Occupy This Space recently, there was an eagerness to go check out the latest album from UK outfit Davey Woodward & The Winter Orphans from whence they came. Fair to… Read More ›
