Taylor and Tyler overcome power cuts and clattering glasses to deliver a very special set as part of their appearance at Sounds from the Other City Festival.
Janne Oinonen
Wolf People – Fain
Fain turbo-boosts vintage British folk-rock templates, with muscular, mesmerising results that will have fans of Midlake, Arbouretum and Dungen howling with pleasure.
Hiss Golden Messenger – Haw
The North Carolina collective’s follow-up to the much-acclaimed Poor Moon offers more of the same, only bigger, better and stronger.
Iron & Wine – Ghost on Ghost
Imaginative, diverse and richly layered, Sam Beam’s sound is expanded into blazing widescreen, with results that play like a greatest hits collection on one new album.
Phosphorescent – Muchacho
The sixth Phosphorescent album mines a rich seam of heartache, but refuses to curl up in a heap of sobs.
Mark Eitzel – Night & Day Cafe, Manchester 02/03/13
If we lived in a fairer world, everyone would know the sounds of Mark Eitzel, or least, so says recent convert Janne Oinonen.
Night Beds – Country Sleep
Lowdown and lonesome, these tunes can seem unhealthily devoted to heartache in daylight. Once the twilight falls, however, the odds are you’ll be won over.
Mazes – Ores & Minerals
London/Manchester trio swap 90′s slacker indie-inspired lo-fi aesthetic for rhythmically endowed guitar worship on album number two, with impressive results.
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away
The fifteenth album from Cave & Co – is a tense, fractured, bristling listen that pushes the boundaries yet again.
Various – Reason to Believe: The Songs of Tim Hardin
Praise from Bob Dylan. Big-hitting covers by Cash, Weller, Walker et al. Yet Tim Hardin’s songwriting genius remains under-appreciated, a wrong this strong tribute seeks to set right.
Peaking Lights – Lucifer in Dub
The odd highlight aside, the West Coast duo’s dub version of third album Lucifer doesn’t stray far enough from its parent album.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Psychedelic Pill
The name of Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s current tour – Alchemy – provides an apt description of the contents of this much overdue reunion, which turns base materials – a few chords, oceans of distortion – into solid gold.