Category: Albums

PHANTOM LIMB – The Pines

Phantom Limb is an English country and soul band from Bristol, England. They finely mix blues, gospel and R&B, achieving a distinctive style reminiscent of Union Station, America and Bread.

The band comprises: Yolanda Quartey, Stew Jackson, Andy Lowe, Dan Moore, Matt Jones and Luke Cawthra.

Their album The Pines was exquisitely produced by Mark Ford, former Black Crowes lead guitarist and is released on 13th February, 2012 on the Naim label. It was conceived in France and recorded in California.

The brilliant [...]

Kiros – Lay Your Weapons Down

Listening to Kiros’ ‘Lay Your Weapons Down’, I’m teleported back to the surreal land of musical discovery I went though a few years back, dabbling in that nebulous region of “emo” and discovering that rather American brand of introspective rawk that blends pop-punk, heavy guitars, and heart-on-sleeve, mostly faith-based lyrics. And that’s an awkward situation for an atheist rocker. I’d have to say on the one and Kiros never preach, and they have glimmers of potential. However, despite the best [...]

Grannies Club – Wait & See

Grannies Club are an Italian four-piece indie-rock band, who formed just outside Rome four years ago. The band is centred round founder, frontman, and guitarist David Comanducci, and completed by Fondi on drums, Falconi on guitar, and Lolli on Bass. Despite lacking any real online presence, and with just one indie-released album ‘One Night Stand’ to their name, they have already managed to land support slots with bands such as Black Lips and The Courteeners – albeit just in their [...]

Michael Maclennan – Wolves

I had heard some good things about Michael and they were right the standard of this album is very good, sounding like a young Damien Rice. I really like the cover it is simplistic and does look like something Rice would come up with, but he does have alot of his own ideas and really brings you into his world and what his life is like in ‘To the Fire’ where the vocals could be more compared to the script [...]

Cloud Nothings – Attack on Memory

Attack on Memory by the Cloud Nothings opens with the melancholia and angst of No Future/No past and unfortunately for many this doesn’t change as you progress through the album. It feels easy to dismiss straight off as the same old teenage angst we call ‘emo’ and with a lot of the lyrics it’s unavoidable, ‘I know life’s not gonna change… I thought I would be more than this’. Wasted Days, the second track, continues this theme of loathing and [...]

Thomas Truax – Monthly Journal

Written with the help of his dedicated fans through PledgeMusic, Thomas Truax brings us Monthly Journal. Not just a follow up full length album, Monthly Journal does exactly what it says on the tin. Written from the experiences of Truax himself, every month came the next instalment of the New Yorker’s life telling tales of romance, dreams, and desires. Everything Truax experienced over the twelve months of last year is added together on one disc to make a compilation album [...]

Caliban – I Am Nemesis

Funny this, I feel that for all intents and purposes I should like Caliban’s ‘I Am Nemesis’. It’s loud, it’s got riffs coming out of the proverbial, and some of it is rather good. But then again, after four tracks, I find my mind wandering, and I realise that no matter how loud I play it, or whether it’s on hi-fi or headphones, it just feels like they’re going through the motions here.

On the one hand, there are some great [...]

Dead Wolf Club – Dead Wolf Club

Dead Wolf Club release their self- titled debut album on February 1st 2012. The band is comprised of John Othello (vox/guitars), Alwin Fernandez (guitar), Martha Supajirawatananon (bass), and Serra Petalle (drums) who apparently met on a flight to Paris. Two years later they have formed a band and have signed to new label Scene Not Herd Records.

According to their webpage Dead Wolf Club specialize in “loudness, quietness, darkness and light.” To be honest I cannot hear much quietness in their [...]