Ian Fillingham

Following a summer of recording and touring, including a gig at Worthy Farm, Kagoule return to the city which spawned them. Once Band of Jackals brash, heavy sound had warmed the crowd, Kagoule and co-headliners, God Damn, seized the stage. To call God Damn ‘another duo’ would unfairly pile...

Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds combines H.G. Wells’ science fiction narrative with obliterating every single convention of popular music. Opening the record with the steady pound of Disco, a symphonic orchestra, elongated guitar solos and mind-bending sound effects: it could only have come from the madness of the 70’s....

Tonight is only the third night of The Twilight Sad’s extensive tour, with some dates in the UK followed by a number in the US. It’s also been a long time since the band has played Nottingham. Starting off the night was fellow Glaswegians, the three-piece Errors who warmed...

             After breaking into popular consciousness with his widely esteemed 2010 release Swim, Dan Snaith returns once again under the moniker Caribou to bring us another intricately crafted record which, in expected form, is as intelligent and entrancing as it is soulful and euphoric....

The fifth full-length release from the Los Angeles producer Flying Lotus, You’re Dead!, starts off incredibly hectic. Opening track, ’Theme’, sounds like a great orchestra warming up and tuning their instruments, preparing for the fast paced, scatty tempo that is to come. As with much of Flying Lotus’s work, it’s...

Denmark’s finest confirm themselves as the band of our generation with their third album – a captivating concoction of contemporary, accessible punk and beautiful, experimental post-punk. Their second, You’re Nothing, was an undoubted musical progression from 2011’s brutal debut New Brigade, but the hyperbola of their progress grows ever...

            How best to describe The Phantom Band? The Scottish six-piece, formed in 2002, have notoriously become as difficult to pin down in terms of genre as it was for the group to finally settle on the name ‘The Phantom Band’ – this, in itself, a reference to their...