TLOBF can exclusively reveal The Monroe Transfer’s imaginative plans for their next song. The seven piece instrumental band from London is asking as many people as possible to contribute to ‘The Heavens Sleep, Are Sleeping Still’.

Left With Pictures – Beyond Our Means
Left With Pictures have produced a smart, sweet breeze of a record. Short it may be, but it’s a treat you’ll come back to. Andy Johnson reviews.

Left With Pictures announce new single: ’1, 2, 3… Go!’
Whilst the debut album is a little way off yet, to keep up our anticipation levels, Organ Grinder Records have seen fit to bestow upon us another single. Andy Johnson takes a closer look…

Left With Pictures – Every Stitch, Every Line / Her Father’s Nose
These songs are a restatement of the band’s mastery of subtlety and enjoyable melodies, creating gloriously engaging pop that we really ought to cherish. We never review singles here at TLOBF, but we thought we’d make one exception…

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…

The Monroe Transfer – I Dreamt I Was a Hammer and Everything Was Glass
The Monroe Transfer’s seventh release is a beautiful piece of work, and is exactly what the seminal Godspeed You! Black Emperor might be doing today if the word hiatus hadn’t been invented.
Fireworks Night – A Mirror, A Ghost
Andy Johnson get his teeth around the haunting, ghostly, but not entirely convincing EP by TLOBF favourites Fireworks Night.
Introducing: Left With Pictures
Left With Pictures’ new EP ‘Secretly’ is an enchanting stroke of chamber pop genius. We caught up with the East London based trio to find out what makes them tick.
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