- 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...
27.08.2021
Suuns – The Witness (Album Review)
The Witness, a new album from Suuns, walks a fine line. Third stream, the title track, clocks in at seven minutes, and it’s alt-rock from here. Joe Yarmush, Suuns’ guitarist, tells how “it was a conscious decision to make the album sound like one song”. Okay Joe, sure self-indulgence is a big part of being a musician, we get it, but did that one song have to sound like an auto tune truck smashing into a noir film set throughout the album’s entirety? ...
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23.08.2021
Raven Bush – Fall Into Noise (Album Review)
Last Week, Raven Bush (not to be confused with Raven featuring Jocelyn Brown in the 1984 smash hit, ‘So In Love’) released his debut LP, Fall Into Noise, but not before dropping a series of singles like breadcrumbs to whet the appetite. Raven pivots from the familiar sounds of ‘Moonglades’, ‘You Should Have Told Me’ and ‘Harp’ while carrying his signature hooks and transitions; he explains the move in a Stereo Sanctity press release: “As a title, Fa...
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28.07.2021
Silvertwin – Silvertwin (Album Review)
Ever caught yourself listening to a ‘70s rock band and wishing you could've seen them live when they started, at smaller venues? Or perhaps you're wrinkled enough to have been there and you miss it? Silvertwin and their self-titled first album are here to take you there. I pressed play and started doing the pile of dishes in my kitchen, but as soon as the first song began, I knew they deserved my full attention (who the hell do I think I am?). I lef...
Read more- Underexposed
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 stad...