Finally getting the recognition they have long deserved, 2007’s Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters was a mass of different sound layers (folk/noise?). With James Graham’s emotional vocal delivery it was so different to ...

You sleep like a kid with one hand stuck fast to the side of your face. Backside in the air, mouth half open, but still filled with grace. I think I first heard ...

Many times I’ve listened to The Phantom Band late at night on the train home and just wanted to get a telecaster in my hands. This band possibly inspired Boot Palace more than ...

I first came across Elbow supporting Doves at the Astoria in 2001. Ended up going to see them multiple times that year, once even at the appropriately named Elbow Room pool hall in ...

My first introduction to Midlake, from the album The Trials of Van Occupanther. A rather odd name for an album but it is such an accomplished and timeless record. The harmonies of Tim ...