Introduced to me this week by Eel Pie Records, the raw and excellent Laurel Canyon. Total grunge and shoegaze melded together. Really like the album, it’s a head nodder and a bit of ...

This will wake you up….the opening track of one of my favourite albums. Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea by the sensational Polly Jean Harvey. Heading firmly into National Treasure territory, ...

This one is from Micah’s 2022 album I Lie to You. He’s been around in my consciousness/record collection since about 2007. A haggard, harrowed voice like treacle over a cheese grater, he’s had ...

Austin psychedelic rock gods The Black Angels bang on your door with a relentless thud until you’re forced to let them in to wash your brain with a kaleidoscopic noise. Stephanie Bailey hits ...

A classic piece of shoegaze from 1996. Hypnotic, slack and edgy, it makes you close your eyes, raise your arms and sway. You should be picking me up, instead you’re dragging me down. ...