The Subways - All Or Nothing

Musical sobriety is a killer of young bands in this country, that desire to be taken more seriously after a big breakthrough record. So in a climate where every teenage group is paranoid about the need to push boundaries All or Nothing - consciously or not - comes as a small relief. Read more

Interview: Middleman

Returning to our series of Live at Leeds features, we present you with our latest.. an interview with Leeds four piece Middleman. The band sell themselves as a band who write “vibrant, catchy tunes with booming basslines, bleepy melodies and smart lyrics, impossible to pigeonhole & raucous live.” Read more

Interview: Silverlode

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with the utmost pleasure that I introduce to you Silverlode; the dandiest skiffle-prog-pop foursome you could ever wish to meet. Read more

The Rascals: Rascalize

Rising to fame from his side-project with Arctic Monkey’s front man, Alex Turner in The Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane’s own band, The Rascals have released their first album. The Wirral trio have adopted a DIY sound to their music, something which is followed by fellow Deltasonic records band, The Horrors. Read more

Laymar - In Strange Distances And Lines

There’s nothing like a bit of almost interminable, distorted, down right desolate dirge for those drawn-out, dark winter nights. Such a shame that it’s summer then…However, what, at first, appears to be firmly in the somewhat loosely-defined post-rock genre slowly morphs into the equally wishy-washy area of ‘ambient’ music via the worst offenders of vagueness: ‘instrumental’ and ‘experimental’. None of this really matters on an album this good, though. Read more

Glissando - With Our Arms Open Wide We March Towards The Burning Sea

Although Glissando’s Elly May Irving and Richard Knox have previously put out a couple of rare CDRs, including the collection brought together in ‘Loves Are Like Empires’, this is their first album proper. Opening instrumental track ‘We Are Depleting’ forms a prelude to the rest of the album. All gorgeous wooziness, it sets the scene perfectly for the equally sumptuous ‘With a Kiss and a Tear’. Read more

Last Man Down: Killing Time

Is there a Busted record lurking in your CD collection? This is an amnesty, there\’s no shame here. Maybe you just liked the Thunderbirds single? What about some New Found Glory? Ah, I thought as much. Try as many might, there\’s something irresistibly sugar sweet about pop \’punk\’. Musically, it\’s the equivalent of eating a whole bag of Skittles. Only now, the Skittles have made a cavity and ache against your jaw with a wincing pain that makes you curse their existence with ulcer bloody swearwords half-gargled. Read more

Interview: Glissando

The ethereal sounds of Glissando come courtesy of Richard Knox and Elly May Irving, whose new album “With Our Arms Wide Open We March Towards The Burning Sea” is released on Gizeh Records, also run by Knox, on 23^rd June. Helen Newbery caught up with Knox to talk tours, trains, and, of course, the new album. Read more

Wolf Parade - At Mt. Zoomer

Wolf Parade is a band that should theoretically not exist. Principle songwriters Dan Boeckner and Spencer Krug are usually busy with their own bands, Handsome Furs for Boeckner and Sunset Rubdown, as well as Swan Lake for Krug. Read more

Her Name Is Calla - The Heritage

The debut ‘mini-album’ - over 50 minutes long, but only six tracks - from Her Name is Calla is the Leicester/Leeds based band’s second release on Gizeh Records following their well-received debut single ‘A Moment of Clarity’ towards the end of last year. This effort apparently began life as an EP (hence mini-album), and, in places, this seems to show, with each track better standing alone than integrating into an entire piece of music. Read more

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