Jonathan Aird

Big Surr “In Business” (Independent, 2017)

April 6, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

Being in love is such fun, isn’t it? When it stops being you against the world and starts being us against the world. To be understood. And supported. And to go cruising in a car laughing […]

Adult Karate “Indoors” (Plug Research, 2017)

April 4, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

This might be a hard sell, and to be straight from the outset there is not a shred of what most people would define as Americana in this release. Nor is there a touch of roots, […]

Robert Cray announces UK Tour 2017

April 4, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

There are some artists who chip away at the coal face of an existing musical genre, and there are those who through the dint of their efforts take a form that is in danger of becoming […]

Those Lavender Whales “My Bones are Singing” (Fork & Spoon Records, 2017)

March 30, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

There is a backstory to My Bones Are Singing, and although it’s not explicitly spelt out at any point on the album it’s so relevant that it can’t really be ignored. Before recording My Bones are […]

Matt Hannah “Dreamland” (Gamine Records, 2017)

March 29, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

Matt Hannah’s Dreamland is an album of roots-tinged rock, with just enough pedal steel, upright bass and accordion to make it rock that bit easier, and that’s appropriate as the title song, and album opener, explains. […]