It is often easy to loose track, quite literally, when listening to a record fuelled with drifting echoes and sweeping vocals but Porcelain Raft’s latest record manages to capture the elements of both its compiled genres, being electronic and pop, and fuse it together nicely without straying too far into either. If ever you’ve listened [...]

Gone may the days of 90’s Britpop, but somehow, West Country boys, ‘Towns’ are bringing a hefty essence of the genre back. There’s been a gaping space in the music field for a while now, missing that throwback. Sure we’ve had the revival of the Gallagher siblings in their new ventures, but ‘Towns’ are unmarked [...]

This album, made up of B-sides, covers and previously unreleased songs, is the second compilation from Frank (the first-as the quick ones will have guessed-was titled “the first three years”), and although these types of B-Side albums are often something you expect from bands far bigger than the punk-folk singer from Winchester, the devout fans [...]

We’ve had a couple of reviews on Never Enough Notes recently covering the St. Albans quartet Enter Shikari, most of them concluding that the new singles ‘Arguing with Thermometers’ and ‘Ghandi Mate, Ghandi’ were not like their first album offering Take to the Skies. They were right, and maybe if you prefer their first album, [...]

Nada Surf have been making music for 20 years now, and are back with their sixth studio album and third with label City Slang. “The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy” hits the shelves on 23rd January, after a long four year break. The band’s name, according to lead singer Matthew Caws, is “actually referring to [...]

Personal bias at large, as Lisa Hannigan gets set to release her second single on March 26th from lyrically rich and emotionally enthralling album ‘Passenger’. ‘What’ll I do’ is a bright, infectious and colourful component to the album which continues to highlight the growing change in Lisa’s writing and delivery of her music. Reminiscing someone [...]

Reel Big Fish were one of my first loves in terms of music. The live album was one of my favourite albums that I could probably sing every lyric to every song, and after not listening to them in a long time, I had forgotten how good the Californian band really were. Saturday was a [...]

After the success of his fourth album, 2010’s Black City, Dear isn’t taking a rest and re-cooperating. Instead, he’s releasing this EP, touring, and preparing his fifth full-length, Beams, due out sometime this year. ‘In the Middle (I Met You There)’ marks Dear’s first duet, with Jonny Pierce from The Drums. The sample that runs throughout reminded [...]

On the cusp between radio-friendly electro pop and the less-mainstream, more explicit side of electronic music lies Knife Party – a new collaboration between experienced artists Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen of Pendulum. Their face-off with the already-established Swedish House Mafia has created something of a beast in the form of Antidote. Dubstep-style fat basslines [...]

You know when they travel to the future in the Bill and Ted films, and it’s basically the 1980s except it’s the future? That’s pretty much what this album is. Except with the 1970s. And no Keanu Reeves.

Exciting news comes from M.I.A. as she releases a new single via Pitchfolk. ‘Bad Girls’ is a taster for what to expect from her fourth studio album coming out in the summer. It is a reworking of one of her songs from the Vicki Leekz mixtape, which was released in late 2010. ‘Bad Girls’ sounds [...]

I did an assignment for uni not long ago on how the digitalisation of music has ultimately made it more than difficult for bands to be noticed in the 21st century. M83 has been around for the past 10 years, producing the odd hit but never really quite broke through those slippery cracks to industry success, ultimately leaving Gonzalez and his band unnoticed for far too long.

Within the first minute, Alex’s voice takes hold of you and draws you into this sublime song that drifts through your thoughts like an autumn breeze.

“…an incredibly anthemic feel without feeling in anyway cliché.”

It really takes a special something to be able to produce a purely instrumental based album on the acoustic guitar and keep the listener so engrossed.

The drums instantly sound vintage and sampled, but this is all original material, and the duo’s aim for an old-school, retro sound compliments the actual musical content of this track perfectly. This is a track that is bound to be enjoyed by everyone.