We like Wye Oak. They’ve been wooing the TLOBF staff from the very first play of their great debut album (review here). It moved one of our writers to compare them to The Delgado’s, which instantly clicked with me. Their wonderfully vivid songs are all carefully orchestrated to create a fuzzy blanket of song in which to immerse yourself. We caught up with the band to find out a bit more about them. Continue Reading

Shortly after being confirmed for next year’s Shockwaves NME Awards Tour and subsequently winning an award at next year’s Brit Awards, Florence and the Machine’s Florence Welch, the current London it-girl of indie, took time out to answer Amy Pay’s questions. Read on to find out what Welch’s genre-hopping band have planned for the not-so-distant future. Continue Reading

6:10 or something on a Wednesday night, and a combination of my heating breaking, having to buy a new electric razor and then realizing they don’t have normal-world power cables, and playing juggle-the-timing with this, my girlfriend catching a train home to Glasgow, and getting to eat some food before Times New Viking start tonight has left made me… well actually I guess going back aways you could say just generally my parents’ obsession with good timing, passed in some sort of evil fully-ingrained, can’t-even-be-late-when-tries-and-gets-annoyed-with-self-at-mere-prospect-of-poor-timing form to me, has put me in kind of a bad mood, which isn’t ideal for just before getting to ask some questions to, you know, actually like a proper band who aren’t even from this country or anything and stuff. Continue Reading

Well, they might have got tid of their tap-dancing (which is a bit of a shame), but Tilly and the Wall still craft some danceable pop tunes. Hot off the back of releasing their latest album, O, and appearing at Moshi Moshi’s recent birthday bash, we got the band to answer our 20 Questions… Continue Reading

Fred Nicolaus, with Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen, is one half of the beautiful collaboration that is Department of Eagles. Following the recent release of second album In Ear Park, we had the opportunity to pitch some questions to him, telling us about the band’s inspirations, how the two members work together, and the artistic concept behind their name. If you’ve not already done so, read our review of the album here. Continue Reading

It’s 2009, so what better time to start a new feature! Our 20 Questions have been retired, enjoying their time off with their pipe and slippers. We’ve replaced them with something a little more musical… To kick start this new age, we caught up with hotly tipped Canadian indie-rockers Wintersleep who set the bar high with their love of Rod Stewart… Continue Reading