Discovering great new artists is one of the most exciting things about music for me. If you don’t champion the stuff you love, you can’t complain when you only hear the shit you hate on the radio.
There is an endless and thrilling sea of music out there, but it can be bewilderingly vast and not without peril. You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you meet an artist formerly known as Prince. In this monthly column for Louder Than War I will be highlighting some of the most interesting releases I have heard by new and unsigned artists, wading through the audio slush pile so you don’t have to.
Gintsugi releases her eponymous debut EP, a beautifully crafted set of songs with an unsettling but elegant sound.
Read on LTW »Small Flames, the debut solo release by Dylan Blackthorn, is an energetic and entertaining album that should delight anyone who likes their country served with a dash of the unexpected.
Read on LTW »Has there ever been a more perfect trip through the infinity mirrors of pop alter-ego than the love letter to Hannah Montana penned by Miley Cyrus this week?
Read More »Tonight’s presentation will contain twists, turns, low drama, high comedy and at times…music.
Read on LTW »Fresh from a spoken word poetry collection that nobody asked for, but somehow seemed the most ‘Lana’ thing ever, Chemtrails Over The Country Club is a beautiful record that should delight fans and infuriate detractors in equal measure.
Read on LTW »Everything you never needed to know about the Village People but will be glad I told you anyway.
Read More »Taking place in those strange, hazy, pre-internet times when travelling unprepared was a more perilous proposition there is a pleasingly shambolic quality that will be familiar to anyone who ever had a really great idea they didn’t quite think through.
Read on LTW »BIG BOYS DON’T CRY-AY-AY but that’s exactly what TASH expects of their man.
Read on LTW »The enfant terrible of the Australian music scene and father of the screaming cowboy meme is back.
Read on LTW »Continuing on from where Solitude & I left off, Dying on the Vine tackles the inescapable avatars of modern digital life.
Read on LTW »A fierce, feline mix of psychedelic, punk, shoegaze and kraut-rock fitting of its title
Read on LTW »A last minute entry to my top singles of the year.
Read on LTW »An inventive collection of songs with a neat and intriguing concept..
Read on LTW »It should be no surprise that pop’s own Rebel Queen might eventually go rawk but Plastic Hearts is in many ways a surprisingly grown-up affair.
Read More »A riotous injection of day-glo, bubblegum pop punk right where we need it!
Read More »Kylie and disco go together like glitter and sequins so this should be a triumph - and it very nearly is.
Read More »I Don’t Know How But They Found Me are exactly the kind of band who will annoy almost as many people as they will be adored by, and Razzmatazz is exactly the kind of album you would expect a band like that to make.
Read More »Is ‘pandemic pop’ a recognised genre term yet? Because if not then I think this is it..
Read More »Usually when sponsored ads stalk me on Instagram it leads to antipathy but in the case of the promo clip for sumptuous, retro tinged single ‘Mushroom Cloud’ it was an instant obsession.
Read More »After doing a three album (and one movie) tour of duty of the Gaga version of a midlife crisis, Chromatica has now beamed down to earth in all it’s tecno-pinkness to bestow us with some classic Stefani bangers.
Read More »A fantastic tour of retro-tinged gothic electro.
Read More »Notes On a Conditional Form (or NOACF as its merch-ified) is a beast of an album spanning 22 tracks and despite being written whilst on one of their seemingly never ending tours it is an ambitious and uncompromising release.
Read More »Sonically diverse but also cohesive, if you like your rock and roll smeared in lipstick and accompanied by synths this is probably one for you.
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