As part of our Inner Worlds series we talk to US based musician and composer Darryl Blood about his creative process, the link between mental health and music, and how being an introvert has informed his music. “Music, or more specifically, creating music, has been a very important part of my life for so many …
I’m sure there will be – already has been – a flurry of articles just like this one about the impact of Coronavirus on independent music. This perhaps reflects some of the thinking, but deliberately stays away from discussing the approach of different governments and countries to the pandemic or offering a view on what …
It’s obligatory, isn’t it? An Albums of the Year list. So, here’s fifty albums (yes, 50) we’ve had in our ears over the last 12 months. We present this as a list of albums we’ve loved and think are well worth your time – we hope you discover something new or are reminded of something …
We had a week off last week for half-term but we’re back with our morning listening now…starting with this eclectic modern pop album from Yoni Gordon which passes through the parishes of rock, Americana, and Trap for a listen full of surprises. Artist: Yoni Gordon Album: Fearless Moral Inventory Label: Self-released Year of release: 2019 …
There are albums which kick straight into you, your feelings chiming with them like a struck bell, and there are those which sit beside you and invite you to think outside of your own experience. The debut album from Jemma Freeman and The Cosmic Something does both through an astonishingly varied melodic collection of songs. …
Berlin has long been associated with musical experimentation – from Bowie to Iggy Pop, to the Techno scene the city’s music history is interwoven with its social one. Australian Eilis Frawley has been living in Berlin for the last few years and has made it her home while working on her solo material, as well …
As part of our Inner World series we talk to Piney Gir about mental health in the music industry and how she’s creating a support network for her scene, as well as her creative nature as a songwriter. “I have had a warm, wet, melancholy blanket shrouding me for as long as I can …
North London’s The Leaf Library make a welcome return with second album The World is a Bell, full of warm experimental drone-pop with fantastical details with which to draw the listener in. It’s an absolute fit for this time of year as the darkness creeps in on colder air and it’s our album of the …
Here we are then, another week. Let’s kick straight in to it. I’m hearing more of these nineties influenced alt-rock guitar sounds around at the moment but this album from Hurtling, just out last week is a particularly fine and catchy example of how to polish up that sound and expand outwards into dream-noise territory. …
Last Night From Glasgow – the first crowdfunded not-for-profit record label – is out for disruption by working ethically with artists, calling out exploitative practices, and with ambitions to shake up as much of the industry as it can. Label head Ian Smith talks to Popoptica about what’s wrong with the music industry and how …