Reuben McCulloch reviews Be Human, the debut LP by Violeta Vicci and Bruno Bavota and is struck how a serendipitous encounter led to a wonderful exploration of humanity
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DG|DA is a unique project of electronica, guitar, and voice created by David Gooday (Nitzer Ebb/Stark) and David Arscott (Rubber Soul/ Eighties Archive Podcast). David A is also ex-frontman of the The White Gospel. The duo recently dropped their first album together, ADHD. Andy Mckay The reviewer is a lifelong prisoner of music and is […]
Norwegian singer/songwriter Juni Habel’s third album Evergreen In Your Mind, her first in three years, is out next week. It is a lovingly crafted, minimalist album of enchanting folk. Juni Habel remains relatively unknown (for the time being) and she might not be terribly prolific. Howver, you sense that she is very much an artist […]
Abrasive Trees bring their brooding, immersive post-rock to Colchester Arts Centre this Friday, 27 March. The group, led by Matthew Rochford, headline a carefully curated night of dark-ambient atmospheres and slow-burning intensity. Abrasive Trees also have new music in the pipeline (details below). Tickets are just £8 and are available here. Line-up details An outstanding […]
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Black Grove seek A New Wilderness
The debut lp by Black Grove, A New Wilderness, is thrilling, emotional, euphoric, didactic, and cinematic. It charts an odyssey through, on the face of it, the physical landscape. But, as a piece, the record poses questions about the human condition in the natural world. (While reading this feature, you’ll be surprised when nature swoops […]
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Time to hail Nightbus
Manchester! You’ve given this yank so much music to believe in. Now, here come Nightbus looming into view. From the cold, stark, stabs of Joy Division to the loud, swaggery sneer of Oasis. From the sensitive lad yelpings of Puressence to the moody night shiftiness of The Rain Band (a.k.a. Our Final Invention). There is […]
The UK rave scene of the early 1990s, was a seemingly endless ecstatic buzz built on beats, love, the floor being at one, fizzing with dayglo-splattered energy. And then, somewhat inevitably, after the high, the comedown. Chill. Telepathic Fish: Trawling The Early 90s Ambient Underground is the first-ever illustrated compilation celebrating the seminal underground South […]
Kathryn Williams’s new album is Mystery Park and is her first since the hugely endearing Willson Williams project. Released in 2024, that collaborative project was co-penned and performed with celebrated Edinburgh-based cult-indie songwriter Dan Willson (aka Withered Hand)*. She said: “This record is for anyone who’s felt something and kept it quiet. For those private […]
Bugland is the latest LP from Montreal-based outfit No Joy and they are touring it this autumn. And, I’m delighted to say, that Even Butterflies Make A Sound host No Joy at Chelmsford’s Hot Box on Saturday, 18 October. Tickets are selling well and you are advised to secure yours soon so why not head […]
Chatham Rise are not from Kent, England, as their name suggests. Nor do they hail from Chatham Rise, which is an area of ocean floor to the east of New Zealand. In fact, they reside in Minneapolis. Please read on as Fraser McKay guest reviews the Minnesotans’ third LP, released on 25 July 2025. Fraser McKay […]