- Features
Rockaway Beach 2020, Butlin's, Bognor Regis -…
B-U-T-L-I-N-S that's the way you spell SUCCESS! What better way to wipe away those January blues than with a hop, skip and a train ride down to the seaside? If you have no clue as...
10.12.2019
Beck - Hyperspace
It’s not like Beck to stay the same. He’s a master of combining musical elements and shifting restlessly between albums, staying within an eclectic pop paradigm but disregarding subgenre boundaries. Beck’s new album Hyperspace often evokes the thought-provoking vibes of the Grammy-winning Morning Phase (2014). Since that album came Colors (2017), which was very different stylistically from its most recent predecessor and yet similar to it in terms of quality....
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26.06.2015
Trembling Bells – The Sovereign Self
There can be no doubting either the ambition or the eccentricity of Trembling Bells. The Scottish melody-loving, prog-soloing troubadours have just released their fourth album, decorated with portraits of talismanic writers and musicians from Dante to Dennis Potter, and packed with a set of wilfully bizarre and beautiful tracks. Over everything hangs the antic spirit of The Incredible String Band and Mike Heron, with whom The Bells have recently toured. The ...
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The Pickled Onions – The Mines EP
As we begin our gradual emergence from enforced hibernation, in Ireland at least, it’s encouraging and gratifying to do so with a record of diverse, and excitin...
Yip Man - Pure Zen, Ken?
Yip Man is the nom de plume for Al Nero. Scotland-born but now living in China, his music has the greatest hallmark of the music of the Far East. That is, he igno...
- Live
The Allegory of the Gig – Featuring Black Country New Road (Opus Prime)
Last night we had the opportunity to tune in and stream BC,NR's set out of London's Southbank Centre. The 7 piece played to a live and global audience in a sparsely lit, and even sparser filled, theater....
- Columns
Physical Format-20190724
This is being written on the last day of May, practically two months before it will be published, so who knows what may happen between now and then regards the Flying Vinyl ...
Physical Format-20190717
Whenyoung have The Cranberries amongst their influences, so that's already got me wary. 'Never Let Go' brings Runrig to mind. As well as Eurovision. Lighters-in-the-air sta...