Wu Lyf will be playing 8 headline shows across the UK this October.
July, 2011
Outfit – Two Islands // Song Of The Day #295
‘Two Islands’ by Outfit fits perfectly with Double Denim’s unremittingly dark, yet oddly melodic output for today’s Song Of The Day.
Stream: new Dam Mantle EP
Inhabiting a musical period where albums aren’t commercially necessary, Glasgow-based Tom Marshall hasn’t yet been burdened with the pressures of that traditionally tricky debut album. Listen to yet another brilliant short-play release from the Glasgow-based producer.
New Jens Lekman EP for September
The five track An Argument With Myself EP, is released in the US and Europe on 19 September
The Belly of The Beast: Thoughts and Impressions from the Pitchfork Music Festival (Part 2)
The second day of the Pitchfork Music Festival finds Luke Winkie equally impressed and underwhelmed. Fleet Foxes headline and The Dismemberment reunite.
The Belly of The Beast: Thoughts and Impressions from the Pitchfork Music Festival (Part 3)
On the final day of the Pitchfork Music Festival, Luke Winkie finds a reminder on what made TV on the Radio so great and observes “The Cut Copy Effect”.
In the Belly of The Beast: Thoughts and Impressions from the 2011 Pitchfork Music Festival (Part 1)
Luke Winkie spends three days in Chicago, taking in the sights and sounds of the Pitchfork Music Festival and finds the opening night’s headliners lacking
Watch: Washed Out – Eyes Be Closed
Watch as a glamorous women speeds through sun dappled landscapes in Washed Out’s video for single ‘Eyes Be Closed.’
Photos: Seams launches new single with London show
Our favourite fringed electro-auteur ponied down to London last Sunday for a single launch at The Lock Tavern in Camden. Sebastien Dehesdin was there to capture it all on his camera.
Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize Nominations 2011 Announced
Lauren Laverne announces the shortlist for 2011′s Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize.
My Morning Jacket – Somerset House, London 18/07/11
As part of a series of outdoor shows, My Morning Jacket stop by at London’s Somerset House. But is this the right kind of venue for such a big, bearded, rock-out sound? Jamie Milton reviews
Best of British: TLOBF choose their ‘alternative Mercury’ Album Of The Year – Pt. 2
Part Two of our look at the best albums of the past year has arrived! Have a look, remind yourselves of the sounds that these fair isles have been producing over past year, and let the great debate begin.
Danny & The Champions of the World – Hearts & Arrows
Bruce Springsteen looms even larger than frontman Danny Wilson on the Champions’ third LP, but that doesn’t take anything away from their stronger heartland tunes.
Rachael Dadd – Bite the Mountain
Bite the Mountain is Rachael Dadd’s complete vision and it exists in a swirling folk ethos that is bound to please traditionalists and non-traditionalists alike.
We Aeronauts – Chalon Valley
An EP that refuses to depress. Written when the Oxford eight piece took a French holiday in Chalon Valley, if you’re a fan of twee harmonies and breezy rhythms you’ll be in your element.
