• On Cracking The Charts And Twenty-Something Blues With Indie Hotshots Low Island

    Following the April release of their debut LP If You Could Have It All Again, Oxford mob Low Island and their expansive brand of sophisti-pop are poised for a breakthrough. After an intense release week, Amrit Virdi caught up with lead vocalist Carlos Posada on lyrical stimulus and the album...
  • Festival Review: Secret Garden Party (Part 1)

    Last month was Secret Garden Party, set in the idyllic Cambridgeshire countryside with 20-odd thousand people frothing to get loose as Beetlejuice. The line up was stacked, Mr Sun was smiling, the sweat patches were growing. It was bloody marvellous. Now here’s why… Each year a theme is set...
  • Live Review: Four Tet / Skrillex, Camden Underworld, London (5/4/15)

    Announced around the April 1st, Four Tet and Skrillex playing a back to back set seemed a crudely obvious April Fool’s Day prank. Though, continuing the tendency both DJs have to be unusual, it actually went ahead. Jammed into the 500 capacity Camden Underworld, a step down from Skrillex’s...
  • Album Review: Caribou – ‘Our Love’

                 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....