4+ day, 22+ 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…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (281+ words) The Big Takeover Despite the title, thankfully, this new single from James Howard is miles away from the conclusions you might be drawing from the title alone. (Books and covers, eh?) In fact, drop the needle on the track and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1025+ words) This kind of material doesn’t emerge out of thin air, and neither does Seabird. Before Lightspheres on Their Way, there was Burlington, a college town small enough that everyone seems to be in each other’s band at some point which…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (191+ words) ‘Closer’ is wonderfully confident, the sound of pop music being given a shot in the arm, of rock music being stripped to its infectious essence; all though I suspect genre tags are the furthest thing from the band’s mind. Why…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (398+ words) The Big Takeover Sugar World’s ‘White Noise’ takes its title from a sound associated with neutrality and turns it into something far more emotionally charged. Rather than functioning as sonic wallpaper, the single uses noise as a point of departure…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (241+ words) The Big Takeover “Out of the mouths of babes”, that’s what they say, don’t they, when describing the innocent honesty that only comes from those not old enough to have learned the rules of society, inexperienced in the ways of…...