As the Love Continues Mogwai
An expansive, impressive listen with delicious moments of climactic eruption. For Mogwai fans, this should feel like a hit in the band’s discography.
Album Reviews (See allreviews)
Glowing in the Dark Django Django
The album dusky psychedelic pop is covered in so much haze that, despite serious musical detours, tracks tend to blend together. It’s a good blend, though.
For the first time Black Country, New Road
A blend of teenage angst and a primordial, animalistic sense of something lurking beneath a thin surface, a beastly shape clawing at the other side.
Tago Mago Can
The record listens like an all-night jam at an impossibly cool bohemian gettogether. It’s funky, relaxed, audacious, exhausting... but above all, it’s brilliant.
Articles (See allarticles)
Cosmo Sheldrake transports listeners to warmer, wilder climes with the birdsong of ‘Wake Up Calls’
Using recordings from birds (mostly) on endangered lists in Britain, Sheldrake layers and manipulates birdsong to produce music as calming as it is beautiful.
Goan Dogs deliver guitar pop romp in ‘Call Your Mum’ (and excellent advice to boot)
Bristol band Goan Dogs have been going strong for ten years, and the work they've put in during that time has come to captivating fruition in their debut.
Interviews (See allinterviews)
Thomas Ashby: ‘When you’re in a studio that’s your space to be the biggest you you can be.’
Thomas Ashby is a singer/songwriter from Herne Bay. We discuss living together during the time he recorded and released his third EP - 'Backlash'.
Colourful Sevens: ‘I love making music by myself – I can treat my songs as diary entries.’
The Manchester musician talks about his most recent project (Moon), the merits of working alone, and the wisdom of Roger Ebert.
Listening Parties (See alllistening parties)
‘Quite comfortably the best thing I've listened to this year’ - André and Andrew listen to Shame
Crunchy guitars and relentless percussion abound in Shame's new record 'Drunk Tank Pink'. Yes we're two weeks into the year, but a highlight all the same.
André and Fred listen to r/qotsa’s Best Of album
r/qotsa put together the ultimate Queens of the Stone Age playlist: ...Vulgar Songs for Villains (Rated R). We put it to the test.
Funnyfarm (See allfunnyfarm articles)
VIII: Hazardous
In which we hear the innermost thoughts of the world's most important person.
VII: The Dealer Man Can
In which Bas replenishes his supply of nectar.