Two albums ago, with the folksy seminal sound of 2013’s Once I Was An Eagle, Laura Marling asked herself ‘Where Can I Go?’, and oh boy, has she come far. This month, we welcome back the musical veteran, with many a guitar in tow, onto the buzzing alternative music landscape with her latest offering, Semper…
Songs of sex
Claud Letts Music can represent a meaningful moment in your life, something indescribable by words, much like sex. Here are the songs to listen to when making love… ‘Darling Nikki’ – Prince Prince’s music was designed to get you into bed. The raw, live feel of the song is engineered deliberately compared to the romantic,…
The Coral: ‘You don’t go to a live show to see something slick’
After a five-year hiatus, earlier this year, Wirral psych-pop band The Coral came storming back with their most haunting album yet, Distance Inbetween. While faithful fans will rejoice at the familiar psychedelic sound harking back to the band’s earlier hits (‘Dreaming of You’, ‘In the Morning’), the band tread new, heavier territory with their latest…
New album releases
Beth Ramsay Jagwar Ma Every Now & Then Amidst the album’s jangly guitar strums and disco-tinged synth sounds, a quieter moment in Jagwar Ma’s Every Now & Then stands out with the line “I still feel the way I did when we met” in the second track. Lead vocalist Gabriel Winterfield purrs the words, summarising…
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