3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (371+ words) The Big Takeover Before he joined Roxy Music, guitarist Phil Manzanera played in the early seventies progressive rock band Quiet Sun. Also consisting of future Matching Mole bassist Bill MacCormick, keyboardist Dave Jarrett, and future This Heat drummer Charles Hayward,…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (334+ words) The Big Takeover Even before you get to the music, there is something quintessentially English about the themes that run through Last Night Watchman’s music – everything from ideas of colonial power to fossilised footprints in a riverbed to a Reader’s…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (338+ words) The Big Takeover ‘Far Away’ feels like a song that has fallen into the present from some sort of psychedelic-pop, dayglo, paisley-patterned past, a place that is woven partly from actual nostalgia and partly from the soundtrack to trippy dreams....

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (268+ words) The Big Takeover Sitting somewhere between the sass of indie and the classiness of soul, blending such extremes as guitar intensity and a more understated, bass-driven serenity, ‘Pack It Up’ is one of those songs where such opposites definitely attract....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (420+ words) The Big Takeover I love a good made-up, one-off, one-of-the-spot genre tag, so a line like “an Art Death Indie Post-Punk Rock Alternative” gives me goosebumps just reading it. And like all made-up, one-off, one-of-the-spot genre tags, it suggests so…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago   (193+ words) There is something easy, for want of a better word, about this new single from Violet Love, something effortlessly accessible, something gently infectious, an ability to deliver a great tune without ever seeming to try too hard. ‘Airport Road’ is,…...