When a rock star dies young, in sad and mysterious circumstances, their works often become mythologised. That’s particularly true of Dennis Wilson and the once-rare Pacific Ocean Blue. Yet, despite the bullshit surrounding it, this remains a fine album, writes […]
Starting your third album with an 11 minute long track is a pretty bold move, but indicative of an artist who is brimming with confidence. On Blood Oaths of the New Blues, James Jackson Toth, aka Wooden Wand, has created […]
We’ve dusted off our tie-dye flares, set our alarm clocks to 25 o’clock and altered our consciousness to bring you our run down of the Top ten UK albums from the golden age of psychedelia(1967-1968). Our writer Garry Todd, who […]
Conflict about musical direction, song choices and album themes, can be a destructive influence for some bands, write’s Neonfiller.com’s Joe Lepper. Fortunately for Southern Tenant Folk Union, the Edinburgh based collective that loosely falls under the folk/bluegrass banner, the opposite […]
Back in 2009 we met up with First Aid Kit when they supported Fanfarlo at the small Hanbury Arms venue in Brighton. At the time the sisters from Sweden, Johanna and Klara Söderberg had only released one mini album and […]
After a busy two years, where he released the Ship’s Piano album of piano ballads, was part of the Vostok 5 arts project about the space race and released Lido, an instrumental album about outdoor swimming pools, Darren Hayman has […]
Underneath the complicated, looping violin arrangements and intricate pop melodies Andrew Bird is at heart a simple musician, with a great voice. Hands of Glory, a short eight track companion album to his most successful album to date, this year’s […]
Rob Young’s book Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music, started life looking at the increasing popularity and electrification of folk music during the late 1960s and early 1970s. But as he delved further back into the inspiration behind acts such […]
Island records are reissuing three of Sandy Denny’s albums from the 1970s. We chose to review Sandy (1972) and Rendezvous (1977 – the year before her death) as they demonstrate some real contrast in her solo output, with Rendezvous proving […]
This year I gave my first ever 10/10 review for a new album, to UK band Tigercats’ debut Isle of Dogs. This year also marks my first ever 0/10 which goes to this appalling collection of cobbled together band practices […]
