Greg Gonzalez, leader, guitarist, singer, has been called the man with the androgynous voice and on this lovely song K. from the debut album by his band Cigarettes After Sex you would be hard-pressed to confidently call the singer’s gender. A tangent: In this time of gender identity and awareness, the so-called ancient term ‘the battle of the […]
As an addendum to and drawing your attention to Exit North and their arctic soundscape, it seems that they have just released a video for the song Spider from their wonderful new album Book Of Romance And Dust. Or have they? Although this video might seem in keeping with the band’s aesthetic, on the credits […]
Can you love an album you’ve never heard? I suppose it’s possible if your favourite artist puts out a new album, you loved the last one and they have a history of not disappointing you. But what if you’ve never heard of them? I’m not sure how I stumbled across Exit North, probably through that […]
In a time before video concepts and expensive budgets, bands might have had to use their own and their director’s ingenuity along with, heaven forbid, an amazing song to capture the imagination of an expectant public. This is just what happened in 1968 when the already successful Bee Gees thought about promoting their next single I’ve […]
On May 7th 2018 I will be sixty years old. It seems that each decade is some kind of landmark achievement and the more decades that go by the larger the gap is supposed to grow between you and your or anyone else’s youth. In my case obviously, married to a girl much younger than […]
Whereas Laura Marling brings you down leafy lanes, sits you on top of barges in summer canals and strums the shimmering strings of her acoustic guitar whilst musing on the plight of the soul, Siv Jakobsen cracks the ice inside her, splintering shards across a desolate landscape, whilst staring into the flames of a cottage […]