Tiffany Daniels

On his seventh studio album, Yorkston tackles the subject of his daughter’s serious illness; an emotional, and honest rumination on the fragility of parenthood.

Charged with emotion and blossoming dance tunes, Saint Saviour’s Union nevertheless fails to find its feet, often presenting the listener with a difficult concoction of mainstream and alternative.

Mary Epworth’s debut is inherently shoegaze, but occasional shards of melody filter through the studio ruckus to reveal the jewels of a fairy dust crown.

An album full of glaring mishaps which are thankfully outshone by the album’s genuine fervour for breaking boundaries. Tiffany Daniels reviews.

Tiffany Daniels reviews Sons of Noel and Adrian’s second album Knots, and explains why the band are so much more, beyond the genre that they’ve been assigned to.

Brian Jonestown Massacre are best known for the notorious behaviour of their front man Anton Newcombe, but as Tiffany Daniels explains, there is more to the band.

Although Kidd occasionally draws from the layered and looped textures she uses live, the composition and tempestuous nature of Little Battles are what make this release interesting. Drawing from sobriety (‘Butterflies’), emotional disconnect (‘Delete’ and ‘Magpie Heart’) and brutally honest confession (‘In This Boat’), even at her most revealing Kidd is an empowering force to be reckoned with.

Beth Jeans Houghton and The Hooves of Destiny have produced a majestic choral triumph of an album that will get your nerves jangling without bringing a tear to your eye.