That’s it from us for this week dear reader, and we leave you today not with a new song but a veritable stone-cold classic from 2006 which we received in those heady days to review here at AUK – sometimes the first track off an album can blow you away in a way you never quite recover from. This is one such occasion. Emma Brockes wrote a piece in The Guardian yesterday about tracks that you can come unfathomably obsessed with and the way that once you’ve squeezed the lifeblood out of them, they’re never quite the same, but somehow this whole album from the band Great Lakes led by singer-songwriter-guitarist Ben Crum has never got old. Just listen to those incredible first few notes. Diamond times indeed. Have a good one.
Neglect dear reader comes in all kinds of different forms but the cruelest kind for AUK readers is when the PR for a great band entirely relevant to our audience don't send us their new album for review and we then hear about it on our Spotify release radar. Abhorrent…
2018 marks the 15th anniversary of one of our favourite indie-folk/rock bands here at AUK, Great Lake Swimmers (not to be confused with the also great Great Lakes) and today they've announced a new album: 'The Waves, The Wake' comes out on 17th August via Nettwerk Records. Recorded in the 145-year-old Bishop…
David Steinhart has a new album 'Released' which will be...umm...released on January 10th and brings his total of albums to almost thirty. This first single 'Row' is an upbeat piece of Power Pop which focuses on the topic of coming to terms with life changes, and how the necessity of…
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