• Album Review: Troye Sivan – Blue Neighbourhood

    Troye Sivan is a name that is likely to become very well known in 2016, and having played his album – Blue Neighbourhood – on repeat since its December release, it’s easy to understand why. Sivan’s newest selection of tracks, which range from dreamy to melancholic, upbeat to pensive, are sure...
  • Live Review: April Towers, The Bodega (6/11/14)

                ‘When we started the project it wasn’t intended to be a live thing, we wrote some electronic music and then it was like, ‘how do you interpret that live?”’ Intentional or not, April Towers are now a fully fabricated live act. Following a string of supporting tour dates...
  • Interview: Jeff Wayne

    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....
  • Live Review: The Phantom Band, The Bodega (03/10/14)

                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...