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Whether ranging from folk to frenetic indie rock, The Rest’s songs sound like a new day exploding over and over again, each moment carefully leading up to the next.

TweetShare The Daredevil Christopher Wright are trying to strike a curious balance. Named after a fictional daredevil who stars in one of their songs, their lighthearted image certainly chimes with the frivolity that occasionally takes over their music, all xylophones and chirpy vocals, but that only ever happens in spurts. Even the song for their [...]

TweetShare It’s been four years since Justin Vernon became immortalised as ‘that guy who made a record in a log cabin’ with the release of “For Emma, Forever Ago”. But there’s an older indie-folk act that could lay claim to the title: Taylor Kirk took inspiration for his band’s name, Timber Timbre, from a cabin [...]

TweetShare At the time of Beirut’s debut album release it didn’t take long for me to find out, and subsequently feel extremely unaccomplished in life about, the fact that Beirut‘s songsmith and main man Zach Condon was only 19 years old. Add into the mix the fact that he did everything himself just made me want to [...]

TweetShare Buy the album from Amazon – MP3 | CD Julia Stone, the fairer half of Australian brother-sister duo Angus & Julia Stone, has taken her breathy, angst-y sound, usually balanced by Angus Stone’s honest, almost uncontrolled drawl, and infused it right into the heart of her debut solo release, “The Memory Machine,” a hauntingly beautiful album [...]

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TweetShare A few days ago on Twitter I mentioned that when I come across that one gem in my inbox, it makes it all worthwhile when you’ve spent an hour wading through all of the submissions that are either tedious or terrible. Well that one gem I was talking about was Brett Shady, a dude [...]

TweetShare Mumford & Sons have been a round for a couple of years now, playing gigs in and around London along with buddies of the same scene like Johnny Flynn and Noah And The Whale, but they’ve only just (October 2009) released their debut album “Sigh No More”.  Polarising critics (some saying their music is [...]