High Voltage

Friday nights are for dancing, so what better way for promoters Now Wave to welcome in the weekend than with a band who have created a song called 'Dance Music'? Touring new album, Have Some Faith In Magic, Glasgow beat-jerk-merchants, Errors, pull up to Islington Mill with a renewed set list in the vein of Battles, Foals and Mogwai, the latter housing the band on their own label. If it's good...

No, I find it hard to understand Of Montreal either, with this full-length outing (number eleven) another sojourn into Kevin Barnes' beyond-o-sphere of nonsense.

'Paralytic Stalks' shows that the comfortable solitude with which Barnes operates with occasional guests and band-mates has developed into something almost worryingly sinister. Track titles mean less than they ever did, lyrics...

These truths we hold to be self evident; that not all bands are created equal, that indie dross, lazy punk and half-baked experimentalism will always fill the garages- nay, the concert halls of this great land- and for every truly brilliant album there will be ten that fall tragically short. This is the symptom of iteration, of the spread and the pervasion of music in the internet age,...

Monument Valley is the musical world of London-born Ned Younger. Inspired by classic 1950s rock and roll, Postcard-era indie-pop and the modern poets of hip hop, Younger weaves all his musical touchstones into a passion for timeless story-telling and song-writing.  An extremely exciting and talented new UK songwriting talent, his first release, the Tongues EP was...

For anybody interested in this kind of music, Elohymn are a band to get really excited about. Taking the instrumental post rock of And So I Watch You From Afar and marrying it to the math-prog virtuosity of early Oceansize, they take up the Manchester underground progressive mantle and run it through a flanger pedal over a jazz-drumming breakdown.

While there’s a...

If you’ve heard this band’s music already, no doubt your ears will be smiling for it. If you’re one of the ‘far too many’ who haven’t, it’s important that you find the few releases they have, and sit with bated breath craving more from them.

Mostly from around London, the four-piece who are Bastille are gaining much respect around the...

Unless you're involved with a particular part of the Manchester scene, Cyril Snear is a name you're probably not too familiar with. Nevertheless, they have a cult following that extends far beyond the confines of the M62 and have just been announced as the support for Amplifier's Manchester showcase with The Pineapple Thief. Having already released one critically-acclaimed album, Fluent in...