Released on Leicester-based label For the Sake of the Song, Are You Well? is the eminently loveable debut by four-piece Ambrose Tompkins. Taking their cues from classic English psychedelia, pastoral pop and lilting Americana, the quartet pack a mighty sixteen tracks into forty minutes of pure listening pleasure.

Primal Scream have always been a contrary band. Bobby Gillespie, their magnetic frontman, is their finest weapon and their greatest stumbling block –they have often produced their best work when Gillespie has been freed from other shackles and allowed to do what he does best. See Screamadelica, made with Andrew Weatherall, and Xtrmntr (“Vowels are […]

Released on Coventry’s Tough Love Records, the debut album from William crackles in all of the right places and comes blasting out of the speakers. Few records this year will have an opening gambit which arrives with such noisy purpose as early single Five Minute Wonder, a relentless indie-pop nugget perfect for the dancefloor, and […]

The debut album from Coventry quartet Honeytrap attempts to build on the promise shown on their Naked Dancing EP. With patronage from David Bowie, you suspect that Honeytrap’s time is now, and their scattergun approach is endearing enough to win them new fans.

The latest album from David Berman, aka Silver Jews, comes with an insert proclaiming that “anyone can play these songs”. While that may be strictly true, it also implies a certain modesty on Berman’s part which undercuts his impressive talents as a songwriter.

The name might not be instantly familiar but Larry Jon Wilson has long been a popular product of the darker side of Nashville. Along with acolytes such as Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt, Wilson’s own brand of macabre country – underpinned by his lugubrious baritone which creeps under the skin – is akin to […]

After a series of compilations which have explored songs around themes of racial integration in America in the 1960s, and the plight of black soldiers sent to fight in Vietnam, this release is billed as a collection of “songs of urban life 1962-1972”.

This is the second full-length album from Swedish singer-songwriter Ass – aka Andreas Soderstrom – who now performs as a solo artist after stints touring with several of the new wave of Scandinavian pop acts.

Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label has already proffered a fantastic album from Tall Firs earlier this year, so expectations are high for this latest release on the Sonic Youth mainman’s own imprint.

It’s been just over ten years since Glaswegian art-rockers Mogwai released their searing debut album, and fans of the quintet’s gorgeous non-vocal laments will be pleased to hear that the record has been given the double-CD reissue treatment.