A Palimpsest of Inspiration – Pete Astor’s “You Made Me”
When a songwriter as adroit and as reasonably legendary as Pete Astor records a covers album...
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Highly Amplified: Cornershop’s England Is A Garden
Cornershop has always been a political band. Although the 1997 smash single “Brimful of Asha” will... -
STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: “Between Worlds” from V.E.X. feat. members of Moira Scar
Now, it would seem that there are only two modes of response available to us in... -
A Drop Of Soul: Deacon Blue’s City Of Love
It’s hard to get older. It’s hard to be a good friend. It’s hard to love... -
Blissful Chaos: Loathe’s I Let It In And It Took Everything
Get yourself a band that can do it all. A band that crafts heavenly choruses while... -
Bobby Conn Being Bobby Conn as Only Bobby Conn Can on New Album “Recovery”
There’s politics on this album. There’s regret. There’s commentary wrapped in the skeptical entrails of a... -
Pop Music Made for the Fading of the Light – “Mission Bells” by The Proper Ornaments
There are, it would seem, many instances, coincidences, stimuli in life that one’s just not sure... -
A Bracing Subtlety – “Perfect Life” from Demitasse
Previously unfamiliar with this project (even as this is Demitasse’s third outing), there are, coming in,... -
The Right Spark At The Right Time: Audra’s Dear Tired Friends
This one is among those peculiar cases where time becomes the best ally to a band.... -
A Holy Writ to an Unholy Prospect – “Immanent Fire” by Emily Jane White
As the opening lines below make clear, what follows was originally meant to be the seventh...