A few weeks ago I received The Maccabees new single which was good enough for me to play on our radio show, and look forward to the new album due in May. WALL OF SOUND arrived a couple fo days ago and I can report that the quality of that single was indeed an accurate [...]

This is the third singer/songwriter reviewed in as many weeks whose styles verge on the comotose (in a nice way). Archer hails from Northern Ireland but this album is heavily influenced by an extended stay in the Black Forest (more the Forest than the Black).
Wandering acoustic guitar notes welcomes in ‘The Acrobat’, a sweet, gentle song about the antics [...]

Time after time you’ll hear top, seasoned musical stars being asked the question, “What advice would you give to budding artists?” And the answer almost always is “Be original.” This is LA’s Silversun Pickups third album and it’s both original and distinctive - not least because of Brian Aubert’s almost childlike vocal. But there’s much more to [...]

I’ll admit that soft and gentle singer/songwriters are not my preference; I like ‘em dark and hard. However, I do appreciate artistic integrity and sincerity which I sense David Saw has by the truckload.
Saw’s voice is naturally soft and the songs on this album are tailor-made for it. Opening song ‘Don’t Call’ is about a lover [...]

Thomas Truax sounds like a Canadian lumberjack but in fact he is a New Yorker currently living in London. He’s a leftfield musician who actually creates his own instruments which have included a ‘Hornicator’ and a drum machine called ‘Mother Superior.’ So he’s not your run-of-the-mill singer/songwriter. When asked “Why David Lynch?” he explained that [...]

Thank God for retrospective CD albums! It was back in 1999 that I heard my first blues-rock album and a year later saw Doyle Bramhall II play in London. The best blues-rock is hard to beat from many perspectives. But while I had heard of Jeff Healey for some unknown reason I had never acquired any [...]