David Cowling

Mark Huff “Stars For Eyes” (Exodus Records, 2018)

March 20, 2018 David Cowling 0

Mark Huff gives the impression of being one of those people who can pick up a guitar and make up a song on the spot that will be dripping with hooks and full of memorable melodies. […]

Elle Mary & The Bad Men “Constant Unfailing Night” (Sideways Saloon, 2018)

March 15, 2018 David Cowling 0

The title gives a clue to the darkness enveloping this record – it wears its black heart proudly and does its best to draw us into the crepuscular. The music is core to the vision, tight […]

Hugh Christopher Brown “Pacem” (Wolfe Island Records, 2017)

March 8, 2018 David Cowling 0

There’s a lot about this record that reminds me of Van Morrison, the deep spirituality and the fluid jazz notes being the foremost. Brown has a range of talents and founded a program to introduce music […]

The Stephen Stanley Band “Jimmy & The Moon” (Wolfe Island Records, 2017)

March 5, 2018 David Cowling 1

Most people wilfully misremember the 1980’s – they selectively associate the decade with musical excesses with 12” extended mixes of new romantic and electro-pop music. Parallel to this were a myriad of other things, one of […]

Ady Johnson “London Songs” (Independent, 2018)

March 2, 2018 David Cowling 0

It isn’t often that a record reminds the listener of Ray Davies, Mark Linkous and Tom Waits, as this one does. It has the lyrical sensibility of Davies, the clatter and oomph of Waits at his […]