• Album Review: Hurts – Surrender

    Before their third studio album, Surrender, you’d be forgiven for thinking synthpop duo Hurts had fallen through a time rift in the 80s and emerged, hands poised over the keyboard, into the 21st century. With their clear Depeche Mode and Tears for Fears influences and aesthetics, Hurts have forged...
  • 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...