Although not as directly relevant to the content on this site as the Alternative Melodies strand of A Lonely Ghost Burning, the Beautiful Songwriting compilations are well worth a look as well. They’re worth a look more so if you’re a fan of slow, haunting, mostly-acoustic tracks that rely mainly on a great voice above all else.… Read More A Lonely Ghost Burning – A Bounty Of Beautiful Songwriting
How much can you gather from an album cover? The latest record from English singer-songwriter Forgot Where We Were tells you a lot before you’ve even hit play on what could likely be one of the most engaging releases of 2014. Picking it up you’re faced by a shrouded Howard, a man caught between light… Read More Ben Howard – I Forget Where We Were (Review)
When I think of Charlie Simpson as a musician I always think of him as Charlie Simpson of Fightstar, not necessarily Charlie Simpson the solo artist or Charlie Simpson of Busted. It would’ve been even harder to think of him as Charlie Simpson of McBusted, so thankfully he kept his musical integrity and promptly declined… Read More Charlie Simpson – Long Road Home (Review)
It’s been a good year for British singer-songwriters thus far. As I sit down to type this Ed Sheeran has just announced that X has sold 182,000 copies in its opening week – the highest first week sales of 2014 six months in. Granted, Lewis Watson’s first album won’t sell as many copies upon release,… Read More Lewis Watson – The Morning (Review)
I’m a huge Ed Sheeran fan, and I love the guy for a number of reasons. One of those reasons, and the one which is least relevant to this review is that since the release of + back in 2011 he’s made being ginger almost socially acceptable again. I can’t remember the last time someone… Read More Ed Sheeran – X (Review)
27 years, 27 years, only thing I know, the only thing I get told I’ve gotta sell out if I wanna get sold, I don’t want the devil to be taking my soul. I write songs that come from the heart, I don’t give a fuck if they get into the chart or not. Only… Read More Passenger – Whispers (Review)
In alternative music it’s rare that a musicians solo work garners as much attention and acclaim as their main projects. Anthony Green (of Circa Survive) was the recent exception to the rule, as his second full-length ‘Beautiful Things’ cracked the Billboard Top 30. 18 months later he’d be hoping for similar success and hopefully he… Read More Anthony Green – Young Legs (Review)
I have Ed Sheeran to thank for steering me towards this album after he tweeted about it, describing it as the best release he’d heard in the last five years. If I was to use that term to describe ‘Joy Of Nothing’ it would be a (small) hyperbole, but there’s no denying that it is… Read More Foy Vance – Joy Of Nothing (Review)
