Like A Silver Ring Thrown Into The Flood Of My Heart

The Clientele are one of those bands that seem to float around, occasionally releasing records to a small, but loving fanbase, that never get much attention from the hype merchants. You dip into their records from time to time, savour their deliciously drowsy songs, which feel like dozing under a large sycamore tree on a [...]

Who Says There Is No Second Act In The Music Business (Part One)?

The story of Ultrasound is simultanously horrendously predictable and unusual. Bursting out of Camden in a wave of NME-inspired hype, they were hailed as the next Great Big Thing, even if the band themselves seemed somewhat baffled by the whole thing. As part of the press appeared to be obsessed with the fact that singer [...]

Will You Say Yes?

Oh you’ve got to love those garrulous folk over at Labrador Records. Not content with releasing some damn fine records over the last few years, such as The Radio Dept’s marvellous “Clinging To A Scheme“, they’ve decided to release a quite fabulous 22 track compilation featuring all the artists they’ve released records for over the [...]

Back, Redux, Again

Look, I know I keep saying I’m going to post more, but something’s come up. Whilst I don’t sometimes talk in detail about my personal life (injured limbs and hangovers notwithstanding), I’ll just say that something truly wonderful happened last week, even if said wonderful thing’s sole role in life currently is to sleep, eat [...]

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