Even Butterflies Make A Sound
Alan Sparhawk’s latest musical incarnation, Alan Sparhawk Solo Band, presents a new double A-side. This release is a far cry from his second solo album White Roses, My God (2024), which featured exciting, bassy, synthesised beats, layered with auto-tuned vocals. The Trampled by Turtles collaborative album in 2025 also marked a musical departure. This joint […]
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 […]
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 […]
These New Puritans, comprising Essex-born twins Jack and George Barnett, make a long-anticipated return with their sixth album Crooked Wing. It’s another timeless masterpiece of anti-pop enchantment and classical melancholy. Simon Heartfield kindly agreed to guest review Crooked Wing. You can purchase your copy here. Crooked Wing review Simon Heartfield Simon is a musician, producer/remixer, […]
Altogether Stranger is the latest work from Omnichord-toting songwriter Lael Neale. This album is her third collaboration with producer Guy Blakeslee. It follows Star Eaters Delight (2023), which found a huge fan in the legend that is Iggy Pop. Neale, Virginia-born but California-resident, said: “In the course of writing this [new] record there was one song I […]
Paul Mitchell has been producing music since the 1990s. He started off making drum and bass under the name P Method. Now, he’s producing deep techno and has released through Stark Futures, Dred Records (Berlin), Mixcult, Abstrakt Dance, and Verdant Recordings. His new EP is out on OHM Series from Copenhagen. When did you hear […]