“I am Oz, the Great and Terrible, spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who are you, and why do you seek me?” A highly-dramatic silence ensued before a second voice in the sky erupted into…
In the aftermath of PJ Harvey’s ‘Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea’, deep beneath the seedy buzz of inner-city subway stations and Cirque-de-societal-surge, the prog-dreamers have awoken. Instantly bursting into flame and engulfing breath in its path, Black…
If you are looking for a record that presents itself with such undeniable and emotional force, then look no further than this, the utterly striking debut album from Hull group bdrmm. Formed over years of development and circumstance – ‘Bedroom’…
It might be tough to let go of it sometimes, but it sadly isn’t possible to stay young forever. Sure, you can hold onto those halcyon days of old where limits to fun were boundless, but there has to come…
When in 2015 Slaves became the latest British music sensation it felt like a whole new scene would soon bloom and monopolise the underground. Five years on, Lady Bird remain the latest disciples of that scene that never truly fulfilled…
In popular fiction, the setting of a motel is one you’d commonly associate with seedy, sleazy or explicitly villainous activity. From the world-weary receptionists who appear to be dead behind the eyes, to the fetid stench emanating from every unkempt…
It’s been six decades since the Rainbow Renaissance first took to planet earth in light of a re-awakening, yet their enlightened ethos remains a force to be reckoned with. Reinventing capsuled-time, and transporting such to a 21st Century proto-pot of…
The rain here has started to fall heavy. For June, the sixth calendar date wedged into a three-month lull of weekly unknown, this is far from a midsummers dream. Alienated and in search of alternative comfort, when all’s been said…
Sports Team have always had a way of rubbing you up the wrong way haven’t they? Stood there outside their London flat looking like the cast of an out of touch reboot of Grange Hill, giving Matty Healy and the…