Single Review: Fickle Friends - 'Play'.

 Back in January, Brighton's Fickle Friends fought away our winter blues and post-Christmas comedowns over at our sister site The Sound of Confusion with the introduction of their warm and infectious debut single, 'Swim'; a track that had the blogosphere gleefully championing Nattassia (Natti) Shiner (vox/synth), Sam Morris (drums), Harry Herrington (bass/backing vox), Chris Hall (guitar) and Jack Wilson (synth/backing vox ) of Fickle...

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No Middle Name - Live At The Lexington, London, 14th March 2014

London-based independent label Fierce Panda Records are in the midst of an exciting few months; for they have been putting on an array of shows here, there and everywhere around the great city that is London in celebration of 20 years of success for the label and the musicians they have been collecting along the way. On the 14th of March we made our way down to Islington's The Lexington for Birmingham quartet, The Traps 'My Grip'/'Imposter'...

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Video: Talos - 'Tethered Bones'.

Talos is the project of Cork-born artist Eoin French whose electronic/ r&b infused debut single, 'Tethered Bones'  is punctuated with gloopy, clonky percussion, warning beeps and high pitched, textured vocals that strangely wound on an intensely emotional level. Speaking on ‘Tethered Bones’, Talos states: “It's a love song, about how a relationship can engulf and transform you: what it can and does take away. What...

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Single Review: Kimberly Anne - 'Hard As Hello' (Bastille Remix)

  On March 24th South London singer-songwriter Kimberly Anne is due to release her new EP 'Hard As Hello' on Polydor Records.  'Hard As Hello' features four introductory tracks, produced by Mark Crew (Bastille, Rag N Bone Man), Rich Wilkinson (Lianne Le Havas, Bombay Bicycle Club), and a special track from Bastille, whose remix of the EPs lead title track can be found below. Bastille have added an outstanding choral...

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Video: Bwani Junction - 'Caveman'.

Last time we heard from the Bwani Junction HQ we were sharing the kooky, cheeky and crazy-mad vid to their killer track 'Borneo'. Since then, the fun-loving foursome have taken a  tour through Asia, released their second full length album 'Tongue of Bombie' and are finally back on our radar with follow up track 'Caveman', the fourth single to be taken from the brand new album.  Caveman' was released  on...

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