Rick Bayles

Steve Shiffman & The Land of No “Double Life” (Later/Clearly Records 2018)

April 5, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

One thing you can immediately say about Steve Shiffman & The Land of No is that this is a band that really likes to mix things up! Fronted by Canadian Shiffman the band hails from New […]

Hannah Read “Way Out I’ll Wander” (Hudson, 2018)

April 3, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

This is a beautiful album. Beautifully written, beautifully played and sung, beautifully crafted. Hannah Read is one of those musicians who seem too gifted not to turn out perfection each time she records. This, her second […]

Frozen Houses “Frozen Houses” (Independent, 2018)

March 26, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

This is the eponymous debut album from Cornwall based singer/songwriter Alex Hill, aka ‘Frozen Houses’. It’s an interesting package, full of confidently delivered songs and some good musicianship but it is something of a strange confection. […]

Lloyd Cole, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea, 4th March 2018

March 19, 2018 Rick Bayles 4

Lloyd Cole takes to the stage, looking more like a hip geography teacher than the brooding rock star of his youth, and launches straight into ‘Patience’, to the obvious approval of the capacity crowd at the […]

Echo Bloom “Green” (Independent, 2018)

March 12, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

This album gets off to a great start. The opening track ‘Comet’ is an atmospheric number, tightly played but with plenty of space and texture to the music. Second track ‘Duke’ is gritty and a great change of pace from […]