Posts Tagged Alphabet Bands

When it comes to music, simplest is often best. Lilla Vargen is clearly an artist with a full understanding of this principle, with ‘This is Love’ built around the bare elements of piano and voice. The resulting work is...

Hailing from Falmouth, Cornwell, The White Bicycles arrive at Tipping Point towers having remained thoroughly under the radar. With seemingly relatively little coverage and radio airtime, The White Bicycles have documented a period of recording and rehearsals that indicate...

Wooden Arms are a seven-piece folkchestra from Norfolk, and their latest opus, ‘December’, was released a couple of weeks ago as a double-A side with ‘Tide’. That Wooden Arms care little for convention is clear from their curious choice...

White Royal are from one of t’Yorkshires (I’d guess West). As is the way these days, they seem pretty reclusive, with little in the way of biog or indeed any information at all. It’s as if they’ve just formed...

Since sweeping into 2013 with the painfully captivating lullaby ‘Better Man Than He’, Sivu has grown both in style and stature. The Alt-Pop of his earlier work has perhaps evolved more into Odd-Pop, with a huge sense of the...

Such are the times, we should well expect new artists to reveal very little about themselves at the early stages of their creative output – and that is very much the case with Mononoke. The seemingly Liverpool-based (although Soundcloud...

‘Oh no! Not another acoustic singer-songwriter’. You and every other buggar would be forgiven for displaying obvious distain and cynicism, an attitude that is fast becoming the accompanying hashtag to anything relating to the ‘young man with an acoustic...

London-born singer Yadi’s childhood was spent surrounded by a veritable patchwork of music brought about by the musical loves of her parents and their diffuse Algerian/Italian/Norwegian backgrounds. It stands to reason, then, that her own music would reflect this...