June 21, 2010 in Album Reviews, Reviews by Richard Wink :: 1 Comment »
Sage Francis’ L(i)fe has already been mapped out in previous releases detailing his travails through the slam poetry scene and into the strange famous hip hop world. Francis has always been an artist who has worn his heart on his...
May 9, 2010 in Album Reviews, Reviews by Richard Wink :: 0 Comments
Picture the scene – A singer from an indie buzzband is sitting in confessional. He asks the Priest “Father, what have done to deserve all this unjustified blogosphere hype? We’ve only just put out a few songs, played a cluster...
March 30, 2010 in Album Reviews, Reviews by Richard Wink :: 0 Comments
The Greatest Hits album -- what a flawed concept; each and every one of us will look at this release and highlight some glaring omissions. For one thing Terror Twilight is hardly represented, and then there is no sign of...
March 1, 2010 in Album Reviews, Rating, Reviews by Richard Wink :: 0 Comments
The boy-girl harmonies between Tim Crompton and Alexia Hagen put them in line with the likes of 'Slowdive' and 'Damon & Naomi' of Galaxie 500 fame. Yet stay in the contemporary realm alongside recent releases from 'The Horrors', 'The Big...
February 1, 2010 in Rating, Tracks by Richard Wink :: 0 Comments
What does 'Peter Pan' sound like? Well, the single fits in with the current elecdie aesthetic. The sound that first emerged after the mid noughties (God, I hate that word so much that I'm furiously scrubbing my knuckles with a...
January 20, 2010 in EP Reviews, Rating, Reviews by Richard Wink :: 1 Comment »
Yet for some ungodly reason bands pop up and then suddenly disappear as quickly as the came, barely making a mark in the consciousness of avid music fans up and down this fair nation. You find former band members either...
January 14, 2010 in Album Reviews, Rating, Reviews by Richard Wink :: 1 Comment »
Let's get on to something more important - the release of Kobayashi's Minus. The album is self-released, which tends to suggest that either we are dealing with one of the great underground bands just waiting to be discovered, or the...
January 8, 2010 in Album Reviews, Rating, Reviews by Richard Wink :: 0 Comments
Wright's homely sentimental gruff voice works well alongside balletic piano and traditional Americana compositions. Imagine Tom Waits, speaking candidly over a bed of timeless piano rather than hiding behind his elaborately crafted caricature persona. Wright, a staunch, world weary veteran...
December 9, 2009 in EP Reviews, Rating, Reviews by Richard Wink :: 0 Comments
Now along comes Daniel J. Nixon, a man armed only with an acoustic guitar, another heart worn on his sleeve balladeer.
I was watching a documentary last night about the founding Father's of folk '“ the likes of Pete Seeger, Leadbelly,...
October 13, 2009 in Album Reviews, Rating, Reviews by Richard Wink :: 0 Comments
You can still look at the posters on your bedroom wall of Ian Curtis, Ian Astbury and Robert Smith for inspiration. Put on some black, lie back in your velvet lined coffin and think Edgar Allan Poe. .
