Listen Before You Buy

This is one of those rare occasions where I can’t draw from a bag of artists to compare to because this one happens to be a cannonball of everything that embodies the now, which ironically means a unique composite of nostalgia and digital manipulation. Ladies and gents, the Mozart of bedroom synths and electro, I [...]

When I contacted Canopies about featuring them on this site I asked them for what they might consider some of their influences; they divided these into two groups: musical and non-musical. The former showed a musically well-versed and (culturally) diverse band with the likes of Brian Eno, the Davids (Bowie and Byrne), Yellow Magic Orchestra [...]

See Land is the side project of Doug Kaplan, electric guitarist for college/post/math/prog/heck, pretty much anything-rock outfit The Earth Is A Man. Where The Earth Is A Man demand repeat listens to fathom out the intertwining layers of their fascinating grooves, See Land’s self-titled debut needs to be heard over and over for just the [...]

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Oh, man. You know that feeling you get when you’re rifling through shelves at a record shop, and you stumble on something that sounds intriguing, and then you play it, and it turns out to be amazing? Well, I had a similar experience recently. Of course, in my case it was a bunch of e-mails [...]

Remember “Parachutes”? I miss “Parachutes”. But hey, Coldplay are still here and today they’ve revealed their latest single, the [sigh] anthemic “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall”. This is obviously intended to be a singalong kind of tune: they’ve kept the melody simple, you’ll only need to hear it once to remember it forever, and topped [...]

It’s been a while, but I’m really in the mood for something loud and heavy. Luckily I’ve stumbled across Bull Thieves who are only too happy to provide just the thing I’m looking for. Formed in Brooklyn in 2009 Bull Thieves are Lance Scott Walker (voice, beats, guitar, bass, synths), Nicholas Phelps (guitar, bass, voice) [...]

When I was 14 years old I got a little Casio keyboard for my birthday.  Dreams of being rich and famous saw me get as far as learning to play a couple of simple kids ryhmes.  Strangely there didn’t seem room in the charts for vital reimaginings of this genre of music so my dreams [...]