The sound of young Scunthorpe: Brandon Flowers scoring John Ford movies. Ruen Brothers are siblings Rupert and Henry Stanshall (see what they did there?) who have just released their third LP ‘Ten Paces’. There are so […]
We are here to talk about Cowpunk in the 1980s, but we’ll begin with a caveat. This is a totally personal take on the story of cowpunk. It’s my version of the history, of what cowpunk […]
One more collection of peerless Holcombe vignettes for the road. Musicians often talk of their existential need to create. Making music, they say, is something essential to their being, it is not a choice they make […]
Star-studded debut, 60 years in the coming. Some debut records emerge blinking into the daylight without so much as a by-your-leave. There is no build-up, no genealogy, no backstory even. They seem to appear as fully […]
Gorgeous latest from the hardest-working man in indie-folk. ‘A River Running to Your Heart’ is a low-key beauty of a record, a small and lovely triumph for a too often despondent and agitated world. It is […]
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