Harvest of Highlights

  • The Creepy Jingles – Against All Opps

    The Creepy Jingles – Against All Opps

    Here is a band totally uninhibited about their love of a zinging pop hook, in fact they positively let that urge run wild on this new – all too short but undoubtedly leaving me wanting more – six track mini-album released on the wonderful Enigmatic Brunch label. The thing about pop, especially the kind of… Read more

  • Son Lux – Out Into

    Son Lux – Out Into

    Often when a musician or band go deep into film soundtrack work, they can lose a bit of momentum and impetus in their more regular recorded work. Alternatively, on other occasions such as this, the commitment to atmospheric textures, scene enhancing instrumental pieces and the spring of ideas that entails, can result in creative ideas… Read more

  • Hollow Hand – Wish Road South

    Hollow Hand – Wish Road South

    There is an instantly familiar feel to this album but in the best conceivable way, so much so that the entire content of this review could just me sitting back and referencing the top-tier sonic nods and clear as day influences that are flying past. I will refrain from doing that, but I will shout… Read more

  • September 2026 Playlist

    September 2026 Playlist

    For this month’s playlist I am accompanying it once again with a giant photo feature. This time I have been digging out a series of photos I took twenty years ago this month at the Spitz Festival of Folk in London. It was a month long event at the club venue on Spitalfields Market and… Read more

  • ANYX – Starlink

    ANYX – Starlink

    The music of ANYX feels like it comes from a forbidden, derelict terrain. The sonic landscape overwhelms the listener from the outset as a feverish electric guitar note repeats and circles us until the icy exterior cracks and a full blown ethereal gothic wonderment bursts forth over funereal pounding drums, mournful keys and a voice… Read more

  • Dent May – The Big One

    Dent May – The Big One

    Well, this is a thing of beauty and wonder is it not? When making music that is adjacent to pop music, albeit a popular music that honours the standards and craftsman like processes of the past far more than the committee produced formular driven electronic pop that we hear so much of today, creating something… Read more