Review: The Lemon Twigs – A Dream Is All We Know
A very quick follow up to last year’s ‘Everything Harmony’, The Lemon Twigs return with yet more perfectly pleasant do-wop pop rock harmonies on ‘A Dream Is All We Know’ on Captured Track Records.
Review: Porij – Teething
The indie dance sound, once a well worn crumpled leather jacket on top of a pile of stranger’s coats on a dance floor of a club that’s probably become a Co-op, now makes a striking and very fashionable return with the release of Porij’s debut album 'Teething' on Play it Again Sam Records.
Review: Chalk – Conditions II
Having only recently come across the Belfast trio, I had not even had a chance to stumble into their 2023 EP, Conditions to build any opinions off. This follow up EP opens with a quasi industrial-electro-punk number. The Gate is, for me, an odd opener if you’re trying to listen to Chalk for the first time. It’s full of high adrenaline, static and deep and pained vocals from vocalist Ross Cullen all of which has you on the fence trying to dance off a panic attack.
Bill Ryder-Jones – Chalk, Brighton
Bill Ryder-Jones brought an effortless intimacy down to the south coast for the latest leg of his tour for his new album Iechyd Da ( ‘cheers’ in Welsh).
Review: Nadine Shah – Filthy Underneath
It feels beyond comprehension for one person to have gone through so much in such a short space of time. Grief, addiction, recovery, the breakdown of her marriage and an attempted suicide, but Nadine Shah, on her fifth album Filthy Underneath, continues her offering to skillyfully master bold, yet humorous storytelling, which although difficult to listen to at times, is neither glorifying nor crass, but profound and honest.