Record Reviews (March '20): LAB / U.S. Girls / The Necks / Pet Crow / Wodwo / Stephen Malkmus / Dead Cosmonauts / Caribou 1 March 2020 L.A.B.P.D (Or, Band on the Hunt.) by Life Aquatic BandLife Aquatic Band - L.A.B.P.D (Or, Band on the Hunt)Sheffield's Life Aquatic Band…
Live Picks (Mar '19): Hosted by Sam Gregory 1 March 2019 I was tipped off about Singles Night at Pitsmoor's Bay Horse Inn by Martin Currie's column in these very pages last month. Only a few weeks…
Roundup: Our music writers look back on 2018 1 January 2019 As is now a Now Then tradition, we're sending 2018 on its merry way by asking our writers to tell us about their favourite releases of the…
Record Reviews (Nov '18): Prodigy / Roman Nose / R@ + More 1 November 2018 R@ - Neural EP by R@R@Neural EPNeural is a brief and entertaining journey into the sound of R@, a multifaceted producer from Leicester. It…
Record Reviews (Sept '18): Beak> / Miss Information / alt-J / Low + more 1 September 2018 BEAK>>>>BEAK>, if you don't already know, are Geoff Barrow (yes, that one), Billy Fuller and Will Young (no, not that one).…
Headsup Hudson Records 11 September 2016 Neil McSweeney is an interesting guy. A tall drink of water who can weave intimate folk songs that will tug your heartstrings. An imposing…
Battles: Patterns in Drones and Buzzes 17 September 2015 I was at a dead end job, pining for the halcyon days when I lived in Nottingham, somewhere around 3am in a cold Datacom centre in Northern…
Dark Dark Dark: Complexities and contradictions 21 January 2015 The wordy, head-spinning sounds from the Southern Gothic current of American culture have always bred intriguing acts, like The Handsome…
Sound The Day that never came – the failure of a band that had it all. 20 August 2013 It’s a low-lit joint and as I make my way in the smell of dried up beer mixed with bleach overwhelms me. A nice tabby cat is sleeping in…
