Neneh Cherry has just won a Swedish Grammi Award – with her latest LP Broken Politics winning Best Electronic Album of the Year. It’s a quick reminder that she’s actually Swedish, even though she’s left […]
Author: Conor McCaffrey
Journey man: The story behind Michael O’Shea’s mystic folk masterpiece
Like many great legends, the story behind one of Irish music’s most revered cult records starts with a door. Not some metaphorical passageway, but an actual busted door that travelling folk musician Michael O’Shea dragged […]
Gum Takes Tooth’s “what-the-fuck aural mesmerism”
London duo Gum Takes Tooth are a self-described “two-man everything machine endlessly seeking what-the-fuck aural mesmerism”, and they suit the hyperbole. The pair’s third album Arrow is a snarly, wired-up tangle of rusty electronics skuzzy […]
Non-stop erotic cardboard cabaret: Sado Opera’s new NSFW video, In the Dark
“Beyond the glare of streetlights, neon signs and policemen, there’s another world taking shape in the shadows and the music gets louder as you approach,” is the latest tantalising once upon a time intro from […]
Talos interview: This album is a bit more widescreen
“The next thing always has to be 10 times better than the last or else what are we doing?” says Eoin French. You get the idea that he’s facing the ‘difficult second album’ cliche head-on. The Corkman is talking […]
Sleaford Mods: We don’t need nobody else…
The 2017 Sleaford Mods documentary Bunch of Kunst followed the post-punk minimalists’ rise from the sticky carpet pubs of UK satellite towns to the Glastonbury Pyramid Stage and a deal with legendary label Rough Trade […]
Shabazz Palace: True cosmic hip-hop outliers
Seattle hip-hop duo Shabazz Palaces’ journey from avant-garde rap to the astral plane outer limits got a cosmic turbo boost with their most recent album project. Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star and Quazarz vs […]
