As a project, this doesn’t seem like a ‘supergroup’, whatever that means. It is more akin to a group of friends who got together to make ambitious, yet still commercial, music. It is not being heavily marketed. Buying it takes a special effort, an effort well worth taking.
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Motion Picture Soundtrack – The Shapes We Fear Are Of Our Own
In essence, MPS are an eclectic mix of Editors, White Lies and Placebo and who come across as both disarmingly sincere and simpering at the same time
Mew’s Jonas Bjerre reveals side project
Jonas Bjerre, the lead singer with Mew, has just announced the debut release of his side project Apparatjik.
Natalie Imbruglia – Come to Life
With a fourth album approaching her best, we can still be good friends with this Neigbour.
TLOBF Interview: Left With Pictures
Left With Pictures songwriter and frontman Stuart Barter was on hand to answer questions, and once he’d turned down Micachu, we talked about the new LWP single, tweeness, Coldplay, and forthcoming gigs, among other things…
Lock up your TV, the BRITS are coming!
Ah, the Brit awards. That bastion of musical knowledge has finally rolled round once again. Ash Akhtar dissects this years nominees.
Bon Iver – Blood Bank EP
Originally published as an early doors piece last year, heres your chance to revisit the review for ‘Blood Bank’ which went on general release this week via Jagjaguwar.
Earlimart – Hymn and Her
The prolific Earlimart release their ninth album, now down to a duo, and it deals with life, love and religion. Quite a bit about religion actually. Alex Harvey reviews.
