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King Dude – Songs of Flesh and Blood – In The Key of Light

by Chris Ball | Sep 5, 2015 | Album Reviews, Music | 0 |

Beyond the pines, behind the velvet drapes of dreams, lies another America, an America lit by the...

Mojo Fury – The Difference Between

by Greg Latham | Dec 19, 2013 | Album Reviews | 0 |

As 2013 draws to a close music lovers can rejoice that whilst the winter may be mild, the...

Geoff Barrow: Drokk – Music Inspired by Mega City One

by Mat Davies | Jul 2, 2012 | Album Reviews, Music | 0 |

Those of you who spent the 1990s hanging out in student union bars will recall just how unbelievably cool and trendy Portishead were. They were also groundbreaking in many ways, bringing what were effectively torch songs right...

The Mouth of Ghosts – When The Sun Sets

by Catherine Morris | Jun 15, 2012 | EP Reviews, Music, Unsigned Bands | 1 |

British alt-rock outfit The Mouth of Ghosts make dreamy, atmospheric music that fuses trip-hop and shoegaze with a hint of goth. Citing their influences as The Cure, Portishead and Deftones (paying homage to the latter with...

Smith & Mighty – The Three Stripe Collection: 1985-1990

by John Toolan | Apr 20, 2012 | Album Reviews, Music | 0 |

In the mid 1980’s a collective formed in the United Kingdom around the Bristol St. Paul’s area, based around DJs such as Nellee Hooper (later of Soul II Soul) and others who became known as “The Wild Bunch”. This collective, it...