Videos
Video: The Disappointment Choir “A Pretty Good Christmas”
And so to the last video of 2019. If it has to be a Christmas song (and it does) then this hits the spot. Here at AUK Towers we hope that everyone has a pretty good […]
Year: 2019
Features
AUK’s editor chooses his favourite 10 tracks from 2019
2019 – what a f-king year (and that word is being censored for you daily digest readers). Sometimes music was the only respite there was from the sheer abject misery and terror of the outside world. […]
Album Reviews
The Deer “Do No Harm” (Keeled Scales, 2019)
The Deer are a five-piece band from Austin, TX. They describe themselves as ‘indie folk’, which is slightly disingenuous, because on this evidence they offer far more than that rather limiting label might suggest. Sure, there […]
News
Amigo the Devil announces 2020 UK tour
If you have ever heard a room full of people yelling “I hope your husband dies” in some harmoniously sloppy, drunken unison, then you will have stumbled into an Amigo The Devil show. Danny Kiranos, better known […]
Album Reviews
Chris Landry & The Seasick Mommas “Two Ninety Three” (Turnup Records, 2019)
On their debut ‘One Fifty Five,’ Chris Landry and the Seasick Mommas found a proper balance between moody folk and Harvest-era country-rock. In fact, Stuart Rutherford’s pedal steel is at times reminiscent of the late Ben […]