Album Reviews
Adult Karate “Indoors” (Plug Research, 2017)
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, […]
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Robert Cray announces UK Tour 2017
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 […]
Album Reviews
Those Lavender Whales “My Bones are Singing” (Fork & Spoon Records, 2017)
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 […]
Album Reviews
Matt Hannah “Dreamland” (Gamine Records, 2017)
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. […]
Album Reviews
The Buttertones “Gravedigging ” (Innovative Leisure, 2017)
Well, at last here’s an album with plenty of twang – of course in this case it’s the treble high guitar twang of a surf band, given a somewhat harder edge with a heavy dose of […]