Yes, Ben Marwood is yet another British singer-songwriter; yes, Ben Marwood is yet another pretty boy who can play guitar; and yes, Ben Marwood does sell his records in HMV (call me an indie snob, I do not care). All of this perceived negativity, however, is mere prejudice and doesn’t even hold up to the [...]
Envy’s MySpace
Thursday’s MySpace
To say that I’d been waiting for this with baited breath would be an understatement: Envy are simply brilliant and Thursday have always held some favour with me, even through the rocky A City By The Light Divided years. Spine-chilling album artwork and a seven-track listing of names far too long to be [...]
They used to be fun. I swear that they used to be fun. Does anyone else remember the clever songwriting on From Here to Infirmary? The alcohol-metaphor drenched Take with Lots of Alcohol? There was definitely a time when Matt Skiba et al could write with the best in their (admittedly intrinsically cliché) genre of [...]
Lydia’s This December was an album which dominated my listening habits for the best part of 2006: it was honest, it was dark and it was immediate whilst retaining subtle nuances which could only be appreciated with a copious amount of repetitious listening. It was that perfect balance of instant-gratification listening and longer term appreciation: [...]
I have been enamoured by the music of Frank Turner since the release (and my subsequent purchase) of Sleep is for the Week in January 2007. Even in spite of its early release in the year, I knew that it was to become one of my favourite albums of the year. And that it did: [...]
Screamo is an ailing genre so close to my heart it could be considered an inanimate extension of myself: a genre so unified by a sole sense of purpose; a great community spirit; and the initiative to reinvent itself when its term of self-identification was taken and bastardised by the mainstream media. It always gives [...]
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Dual vocals? Check. Varied instrumentation? Check. At first, it may seem that Lydia are little more than ‘just another’ American indie/alternative band, but they do something different; something amazing even, yet I can’t put my finger on it. This December; It’s One More then I’m Free isn’t an album, it’s a musical journey, no [...]
