- 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...
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...
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02.07.2021
Oh Baby – Hey Genius ( Album Review)
https://burningwitchesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hey-genius Our pals over at Stereo Sanctity chucked over a sneak peak to the new (and yet unreleased) Hey Genius by Oh Baby. With a name and title like that how could we resist? I throw on a pair of oversized headphones, climb a few flights up the fire escape and shoulder the door leading to the roof. It’s a foggy and damp late June night, the kind that bends and blurs the neon lights of buildings in the ci...
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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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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...