While listening to this new, typically idiosyncratic single by cosmic eccentrics Super Best Friends Club, I found myself split down the centre, psychologically speaking, until the two predominant aspects of my personality were standing in the middle of the room, facing one another down and shouting. Well. One of them was shouting.
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For people of our age, or indeed any age, a bit of musical nostalgia is healthy for us. This week, the 90s band Cast announced the release of a new single, ‘Time Bomb’ and album, Troubled Times, on Monday 5th March. The band was responsible for such memorable anthems, such as ‘Walkaway’, which still has [...]
Jess Morgan’s first album, ‘All Swell’, is as chilled out as a Sunday morning driving along the seafront. Moving on to new things, Jess has released details of a Pledge Music campaign which aims to raise money for her up and coming second album, ‘Aye Me’. Following on from ‘All Swell’, it is set to [...]
American Indie pop-ers Still Flyin’ have come up with a neat little package to accompany their forthcoming album ‘On A Bedroom Wall’. Firstly, you can get a sneak peek into the band’s sophomore album, due for release 21st May, by clicking here to listen and download the track ‘Cleat Talking’. But that’s not it! The [...]
When I was 17 the sort of sounds that were being produced from my adolescent vocal chords would have made a deaf man beg for silence. Suffice to say I had discovered Oasis and the joys of being a ‘singer’ in an Indie-Rock band (come on, it was 2007, EVERYONE was in an Indie-Rock band). [...]
Ladies, Gents, Dogs and Aliens. Please make sure you watch the Rendezvous video here, it’s Freakin awesome! (As are the bunch of free downloads we’ve got for ya!)
Gone are 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 [...]
There is a U2-esque sound to this single with Bono like vocals and a gradual build up to the slight crescendo of a finale. It begins with simple piano chords and then introduces the vocals, and gradually builds up in a layer of instruments. Although the piano and the vocals are melodic, the song doesn’t [...]
Soulmates Never Die is a some fresh talent from West Yorkshire. Generally I despise the use of ukelele in indie music. It comes across as pretentious and, frankly, lazy. Better Skin, Better Clothes, however, has a charming self-consciousness which is aided by lo-fi production and layers of vocals, guitars and ukelele. ‘My weapon is courage, my armour is honesty’. Great line.
Long time readers of Never Enough Notes might be wondering how we pick our reviews. In my case, I do it entirely arbitrarily. I picked this because the label’s name references one of John Steinbeck’s more lyrical novels. Choosing in this way means that the first listen is always an adventure, but one with rather [...]
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 [...]
After spending the majority of my day listening to a whole heap of new music (soon to be featured on Show & Tell), I thought why not spend the whole day listening to music? It’s a tough job but somebody has to do it. So I braved the cold and journeyed to the Green Note [...]
His teens were spent sparring with her and getting up to all manner of small town trouble!
Who: Wildlife What: Guitars, bass, drums, synths, keyboards and harmonies from Toronto Formed by Ontario college friends Dean Povinsky and Darryl Smith in 2005, Wildlife’s early days were spent traveling and writing in the UK. Following time in and around Glasgow playing shows with musicians met along the way, the project returned to Canada. Joined [...]
The second-to-last weekend in June may never be the same again…
His teens were spent sparring with her and getting up to all manner of small town trouble!
