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Vetiver, Islington Academy, London, 17th December 2019

January 13, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

The Islington Academy is one of London’s smaller venues, a room that revels in its awkward layout that surely aspires to non-Euclidean geometry, its poor lighting, and its really sticky floor. If it were a pub […]

Luca “The House That We Know” EP (Independent, 2019)

January 10, 2020 Rick Bayles 0

Nice to have a debut recording from a homegrown talent to review at the start of a new year. Lauren Luca, known professionally as Luca, is a young singer/songwriter from the Manchester area and this is […]

Carman A.D. “Wilderness E.P.” (Independent, 2020)

January 10, 2020 Peter Churchill 0

Did you hear the one about the musician who moved to Austin, Texas to start a career away from music? Well, that was never going to work was it. The musician concerned is one Carman A.D, […]

My Darling Clementine “Country Darkness Vol. 1” (Fretsore Records, 2019)

January 9, 2020 Steven Howlett 0

‘Country Darkness Vol. 1′ is a four-track EP of Elvis Costello songs performed by Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish AKA My Darling Clementine. The duo has been described by the Guardian as “a bravely unfashionable […]

Citizen Bravo, Raymond MacDonald & Friends “Return to Y’Hup: The World of Ivor Cutler” (Chemikal Underground, 2020)

January 9, 2020 Martin Johnson 0

Ivor Cutler was a unique Scottish artist, poet, songwriter, teacher, humourist and mainstay of British Radio who died in 2006 aged 83 and was very probably a genius. The depression of the ‘30s, his Jewish background […]