With John Hurt appearing on this album and with it documenting the last days of Donald Meaning (who is played by Hurt) how can anyone not be excited by this concept? Originally penned as a screenplay Sawhney later recorded it as an album that could have filled so much potential but instead left most of [...]
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Summer Grant reviews the debut album from Southampton’s rock stalwarts
Sometimes, with an album, all you need to listen to is the first couple of minutes to get a grasp of its basic outlook. In the case of ‘Follow Your Bliss’ it’s bleak, very very bleak.
A delightful affair from a delightfully eccentric man who wanders from gig to gig and catches sleep on other people’s sofas.
Emily, the debut EP from The Ryan O’Reilly Band, starts in a rather lively manner and gradually loses its energy over the four songs it consists of. Originally from Portsmouth (yay), the band have already toured with the likes of Mumford and Sons…
At times there is a wonderful air of Hot Chip about it, at others it so brilliantly bizarre and fun that it’s impossible to compare it to work from another artist. Even so there is something addictive about ‘Generation Hexed’ from Drums of Death.
Fuck Evanescence, fuck Paramore, right here are one of the best female fronted bands in the industry, a band who actually deserve their place in it and who actually understand the music itself…
