(Full Time Hobby)Born of the decision to go and live in the isolated town of Húsavík on the north coast of Iceland, Tunng frontman Mike Lindsay’s solo album draws on different sources from the folktronica group’s default palette, using local musician…
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Cheek Mountain Thief: Cheek Mountain Thief – review
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Eugene McGuinness: The Invitation to the Voyage – review
(Domino)There’s something utterly – if ineffably – British about McGuinness’s songs and perhaps that comes from his belief that “a bit of ruthless optimism is what it’s all about”. This sentiment seems to power this third album – a cocksure, jaun…
Spector: Enjoy it While it Lasts – review
(Fiction)Like a particularly hopeless dame in an especially repetitive melodrama, indie rock, so the story goes, is perpetually in need of saving. It’s a strangely persistent narrative, one that makes the British music press seem like some poor old esc…
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James Yorkston: I Was a Cat from a Book – review
(Domino)Three stars feels a bit churlishly ungenerous to James Yorkston, a man with a vision so defined and individual that you feel compelled to take him entirely on his own terms, or not at all. His fifth album of original material – and his first …
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