Even Butterflies Make A Sound
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 […]
From This View is the third long playing helping of dreampop from Magic Seas, featuring Chelmsford brothers James and John Prudence. It follows last year’s album Everything Has Led Me To Here. From This View’s chiming guitars and washes of shimmering keyboards offer nine cuts of soaring soundscapes for the Magic Seas’ tales of solitude […]
Ora Cogan, genre-shredding chanteuse and multi-instrumentalist, released Bury Me, a 7” EP, last week. The Canadian is on a major European tour to promote the vinyl released by Prism Tongue. Many terms have been used to describe her always-captivating music since her first release in 2008: smoky psychedelia, gothic country, post-punk, psych-rock, traditional balladry, cinematic. […]
Jo Bartlett and Danny Hagan, who together comprise the much-loved, sorely missed duo It’s Jo and Danny, announced details of the second edition of The Wake, the festival they launched last year. The one-day event is on Saturday, 23 August 2025. As if not busy enough, Jo is also releasing new sounds through her IndieThroughTheLookingGlass […]
Simon Heartfield has long been a fixture in the electronic underground, with a career stretching back to the early 2000s. His new LP, The State of Social Movement, is out this week. About his new release, Simon said: “[I] wanted to combine some dancefloor, electro, and techno elements with more abstract soundscapes.” With that in mind, […]
Not Me But Us have released a gorgeous new EP, Piano Twoness. It marks the one-year anniversary of their critically acclaimed debut album, Two. It finds the Italy duo – comprising Naples-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Bruno Bavota and electronic composer and producer Fabrizio Somma (aka K-Conjog) – taking an introspective turn. They have revisited four tracks from the album and […]
The new Snakes LP, Expo, finds the group entering a darker domain than their debut Colour Polished Dreams. Guest reviewer Anthony Gibbons dares to enter their lair. In Chinese mythology, 2025 is the Year of the Snake. In an interview with the BBC, Dr Xuan Wang, a senior lecturer in Chinese studies at Cardiff University, […]