Dakar Audio Club, a septet from Dakar in Senegal play Afro-Fusion, influenced by music from Senegal, Mali, Zimbabwe and Congo. Spotted by Angry Baby music-finder Neil March through his work as a moderator for Fresh on the Net, they've received attention from Tom...
I really do love it when an album closer ties everything up into a neat bow, with a summation of the positives that have come before it. "Woebegone", the closing track on Draw Blood, the most recent offering from Oxford's Little Red, does a wonderful job of doing just...
It's totally natural to feel totally lost. These are sensations that seep into view upon the first listen of "Emeralds", part of a double A side release from Hertfordshire folk artist Minnie Birch, that has been lifted off of her acclaimed second album Tethered,...
One of my favourite musicians to write about and listen to in the last couple of years has been the New York based singer, songwriter and visual artist Rachael Sage. I love songs that tell a story as well as being beautiful to listen to and Rachael’s songs deliver...
If you listen to "A Room for Two" by Willow Springs with your eyes closed, you're taken to a deserted and dusty town, somewhere that's a pitstop to somewhere else, a geographical afterthought where nothing really happens and seasons come and go. Somewhere country...
Twenty seconds. That's how long it takes for John Mills' saxophone to wrap its tentacles around album opener "Blinded By The Sun". This is a common theme throughout the record. Giulia Millanta's sixth solo recording Conversation With a Ghost is peppered with little...
You've got to hand it to Mayday Parade, they are nothing if not resilient. With a core sound and lyrical themes that come straight from emo's mid 00s zenith, Mayday Parade have consistently risen above the usual One Tree Hill also rans, by consistently maintaining a...
Fusing east and west in alternative electro quirkiness, Optivion first came to our ears' attention back in 2015 with Free Unicorn. Drawing influences from, well, all over the place, Alex (lead vocalist, percussion, harmonica, guitar) and Rie (backing vocalist) have...
