David Cowling

Gløde “Ø” (Membran, 2017)

November 20, 2017 David Cowling 0

Gløde announce themselves with the ambitious anthem As We Speak that bridges the gap between the Choir of Young Believers and Elbow. It’s a song that builds and builds and is full of self-confidence, unafraid to […]

Hayley Thompson-King “Psychotic Melancholia, Hard To Kill Records, 2017

November 16, 2017 David Cowling 0

It is only with the closing track here that you’d know that HTK is a trained opera singer, the rest of the time she is belting out garage rock like No Room for Jesus or immersing […]

The Deep Dark Woods “Yarrow” Six Shooter Records, 2017

November 10, 2017 David Cowling 0

These are the same deep dark woods that the Handsome Family walk through combing for tales of mealy bugs or familial murder. On Fallen Leaves, Ryan Boldt does a passable impersonation of Brett with his sonorous voice […]

J Roddy Walston & The Business “Destroyers of the Soft Life” (ATO Records, 2017)

November 10, 2017 David Cowling 0

Despite a passing resemblance to The Kings of Leon, Walston and his cohorts lay down a high-energy rollicking version of rock and roll. An unabashed, unashamed assault, always pushing melodies to the front, the guitars always […]

The New Faith “Me On You” (Faith Healer Records, 2017)

November 6, 2017 David Cowling 0

Big sounding records sometimes bully me into submission and the sheer force of the music carries me along. Pete Wylie was like that, a wave of infectious exuberance, with tunes. Then there are more modern exponents […]