Manic Street Preachers – Know Your Enemy Reissue
2001 was a year of political awakening for me. From the pages of Ceefax I’d started to enjoy politics, and in 2000 I started sixth-form college. One of my subjects […]
2001 was a year of political awakening for me. From the pages of Ceefax I’d started to enjoy politics, and in 2000 I started sixth-form college. One of my subjects […]
It’s not very often that politics gets in the way of an album release. The last time it happened was with Christ – The album, the fourth LP from Crass; […]
Al Greene. Madonna. Felt. Guns N’ Roses. A fairly eclectic bunch I am sure you will agree. On the surface there isn’t much that connects them. But if you look […]
Ruler. Power. Flawed god. These are three interpretations of the title of the sixth album from Zola Jesus – aka Nika Roza Danilova. By naming the things that hold us […]
Multi-instrumentalist Luis Vasquez, aka The Soft Moon, has released Him featuring fish narc as the teaser singer for his upcoming new album Exister. As befitting an artist who has nailed […]
Fredrik Kinbom, the Swedish singer-songwriter & lap steel guitarist, and Sonja Kessner, the German stage actress, were at first an unlikely pairing. Their first album as Kinbom & Kessner, Lieder […]
If there is one thing I have come to appreciate from doing Closewatch, it is that there is no such thing as ‘world music’. To me, that term speaks of […]
With a title that blends the banal with the mysterious, Red Sargasso is the new album from Richard Talbot, of Marconi Union, under the guise of Prospector Sound. Having been […]
Comprised of Rebecca Orchard and Rupert Thomas, Erasers are a Perth (Australia) based electronic duo. Perth is on the west coast of the state of Western Australia, sited between the […]
Fresh, the London-based DIY-punk quartet have announced their new album Raise Hell with Babyface as the lead single. Kathryn Woods (vocals), Myles McCabe (guitars), Daniel Goldberg (drums) and George Phillips […]