Sam Dickinson: Off Script
For a lot of people, music in the 1990's was all about soul and disco influenced pop, with big sounds, lots of synths and lots of danceability. Happily, Sam Dickinson's latest album, Off Script, is heavily laced with all these sounds and is just what's needed in the...
Forgotten Garden: Broken Pieces
New Scottish duo Forgotten Garden (Ines Dias Rebelo and Danny Elliott) have embraced the art of writing about that most universal of themes, love, by producing a tight four track EP that tells the story of a break up from initial implosion to a glimmer of a hopeful...
Songs for Sabotage: Night of Joy
At first listen, Night of Joy, the debut album from former New Yorkers, now LA based, Songs for Sabotage, takes you back to the 1980's and 1990's and the sweet sounds of Swedish duo Roxette. It's not all that surprising then that one of the major influences on Richey...
Astraea: Tonight I Run
London based, US born musician Astraea is a one woman musical phenomenon, both behind and in front of the microphone. As a performer and a producer, with a masters in music therapy, Astraea proves the old adage that if you want something done, you ask a busy person. ...
Eliza Jaye: Middle Child
Australian performer Eliza Jaye succumbed to cancer earlier this year but she had been working on and recording an album of songs for a while before that and that album is now due for posthumous release in a couple of weeks. Middle Child is that album and was recorded...
James Billett: What Will They Say?
2020 will be remembered for two things: the Coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matters movement coming to the fore, following the death of George Floyd in America. We have yet to see the impact of the former on the music scene but, as with much else, music has...
Rachael Sage: Character
The ever prolific New Yorker Rachael Sage releases her latest album, Character, this week. Written in the wake of a life-changing cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery period, Rachael Sage was forced to ask herself, “what comprises character?” Character is a...
Sadie Jemmett: Brave New Streams
Live music will never be the same again. Whatever your view on that statement, it's safe to say that for the time being at least, live music is a lot different. In this guest blog post, Sadie Jemmett tells us where lockdown has taken her music. Almost four months...
