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Album Review: The Civil Wars – The Civil Wars
The cover art to The Civil Wars’ self-titled sophomore album depicts a vast, billowing plume of black smoke, suggestive, perhaps, of a smoldering relationship that eventually ignited and left some...
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Album Review: Glen Campbell – See You There
Anyone with a family member or close friend suffering with Alzheimer’s disease in their twilight years can do nothing but applaud See You There, Glen Campbell’s reinterpretation of some of his classic...
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Album Review: Annie – A&R EP
In most music circles, A&R stands for “artists and repertoire”: talent scouts for record labels. In the late ’70s they would stick out like sore thumbs at punk gigs. They were the ones carrying...
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Album Review: Laura Veirs – Warp & Weft
Warp & Weft was conceived while Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs was pregnant with her second child. The ninth studio album in a productive career sees Veirs juggling the...
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Album Review: Sting – The Last Ship
When you achieve a certain stature in music, it comes with full permission to indulge. Sting’s The Last Ship, his first album of original material in 10 years, is a curious indulgence, focusing on the...
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Album Review: Summer Camp – Summer Camp
With this eponymous release, Summer Camp sidesteps one pitfall of the second album by swapping fiction for something more real and closer to home. The debut LP from the UK duo of Elizabeth Sankey and...
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Live Review: Bridie Jackson and The Arbour at London’s The Islington (10/30)
If you can overcome the natural misgivings that arise when you find a venue’s website is its Facebook page, then The Islington is a pleasant place to catch some live music. It’s a homely North London...
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Album Review: The Daydream Club – Found EP
Dubbed “the English Civil Wars” in some quarters, The Daydream Club open their new fan-funded EP, Found, with hollow, resonant guitar and brisk percussion that reinforce that comparison. What the duo...
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Live Review: Laura Veirs at London’s Islington Assembly Hall (11/21)
Anyone familiar with the writings of Douglas Adams will have clocked Upper Street, Islington as the key London location of Arthur Dent when not traversing far-flung galaxies with his chums. The street...
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