If you have seen Lemondaze live (and if you haven’t, you should) you will be accustomed to their all-embracing aural onslaught – a densely crafted audio soup, with layers and layers of rippling, swirling guitars providing the musical counterpoint to Isis De Chastelain and Rosie Heard-Edwards’ ethereal, other worldly vocals. Continue reading LEMONDAZE: NEON BALLROOM – SINGLE OF THE WEEK
I can’t quite put into words what Atigheh makes me feel. The opening vocals is like a call to home, pulling at something in the core of me. It asks me to be still, to listen. It asks me if it’s possible to be homesick for a place you never knew. Continue reading Despicable Zee: Atigheh – EP review and ‘Clay Grouk’ video preview
Between the lively opener ‘Splash’ (kinda does what it says on the tin) and the reflective finale ‘Mint Green’ (it’s all mint to the Slugs, and I know where they are coming from) there’s bags of fun to be had. Just pick a track and get stuck in… Continue reading The Slugs: Wet – EP Review
Bright and brash, filled with songs that any of our top tunesmiths would be proud to put their names under the titles of, “Sharp Minds, Raised Fists” comes to you with the 100% emphatic endorsement of this particular Loud Woman. Continue reading Gaptooth: Sharp Minds, Raised Fists – LP REVIEW
At the time of writing, Hurtling remain one of alt-rock’s best-kept secrets. If you’ve been lucky enough to stumble across one of their searing sets in tiny London venues, or possibly at Loud Women Fest 2019, this album will come as a welcome reminder of the layered and intense sound these three unassuming people seemingly effortlessly forge onstage. If you’re one of the many who’ve not yet made their acquaintance, however, well. You’re in for a treat. Continue reading Hurtling: Future From Here – LP review
After forming at this year’s First Timers Fest, a tried-and-true training ground for DIY acts, indie-punk gang Breakup Haircut have been gathering the attention of their underground scene. Since then their hard work hasn’t stopped, with a regular run of gigs this Autumn giving them an intrigued audience just in time for their debut EP. The charming ‘What Did You Expect? I Got It Off The Internet!’ channels the subversive peppiness of early riot grrrl to bring humanity to the insecurities and worries of today’s creators. Continue reading Breakup Haircut: What Did You Expect? I Got it Off the Internet! – EP review
Peach Club are not backing down, if you have ever made anyone feel small or negative about themselves then they are donning their big boots and coming for YOU! Continue reading Peach Club: Post-Modern Siren – EP review
Here we have 14 smart servings of pristine American Pop that flirt with all areas of the band’s proclaimed influences, from Bikini Kill to the Ronettes to Lesley Gore and even Elvis. A baker’s dozen and one top-notch tunes, none over the four-minute mark and most under three, just like all good pop songs should be. Love songs, diatribes, barely disguised autobiographies, all anchored to the kind of naggingly familiar riffs that might make you think you’ve heard them before, but probably haven’t. Continue reading The Regrettes: How Do You Love? – album review
This blissful, angry summer is ended and we are not yet saved, because we have not yet told you about Pavlova’s amazing Queensway EP. It’s so, so good! And it sounds like sun and trees and also sadness and anger, politics and climate change, and holding on whatever joy you can throughout it. Continue reading Pavlova: Queensway – EP review
…Et voila, there it was, and here it is – four songs and five tracks, conveniently bagged and tagged as “Wrong Girl, Honey”. An item that nobody with even a passing interest in what’s really happening in music today can afford to be without. Continue reading ARXX: Wrong Girl, Honey: EP review
