It Starts With a Birthstone...

 

  In contrast with Arcade Fire who I wrote about yesterday, the return of Belle & Sebastian is invariably a welcome thing. They're a...

 

 

 

  A very odd modern tendency this one. To imitate the inclinations and sensibility of a particular moment in musical time to such a degree t...

  One for Zorba. Or Son of Zorba judging by the song title.

 

 

Arcade Fire are back with their first proper studio album for five years and judging by this, the two song taster, this may not be a good th...

 

 

 

  Calling yourself Labrador and your debut album  Retrievers  is hardly the most savvy initial career move. Any mildly curious music fan mak...

 

 

 

 

  Anger is an energy. A fact known very well by John Lydon and understood deeply by young Minnesota trio Scrunchies. Can't beat a good s...

  It's about time the woman who reputably baked the cake that graces the cover of The Stones Let It Bleed had a song written about her. ...

  Midlake are back unexpectedly with their fifth album and their first since 2013 when pretty much everybody had assumed they had gone their...

 

 

Should surely be higher.  

  The second Song of the Day within a week out of Asheville, North Carolina and it's a member of the same band, Wednesday, who are clear...

 

 

 

  It must be Friday. It's great to hear great new records like this on a Friday. I've always been rather prone to Mattiel since bein...

 

  Tropical..

  Highest ranking Jam.

  LA's Mo Dotti clearly know their Shoegaze. Inside out and back to front. Latest EP is utterly in thrall to that scene and particularly...

 

 

  Please no...

 

  Grizzly Bear are one of my favourite bands since the new millenium. Such literact, depth and scope about them. They seem to be on some kin...

Lovely mood on this one. You get a spoken intro to the video too.  

  One of my favourite memories of my first year at university, no scrub that, my whole lifetime, was related to this band. I was sat in my r...

 

 

 

 

  Ths is good, Not from now. Unfotrtunately I'm three years behind the times and stumbled across it thanks to a Horsegirl playlist and a...

 

  Sea Power. or British Sea Power as they were until recently known, are a band I've long been aware of, but never really listened to. T...

  I guess you'd need to read the essay...

  Lovely sentiment.

  A niece directed me to Nilufer Yanyer a couple of years ago and I listened to one track, didn't care for it and stopped listening. But...