Album Review: English Teacher – This Could Be Texas
Where does one start with English Teacher? The Leeds quartet have been ticking off major milestones with startling...
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Album Review: The Last Dinner Party – Prelude To Ecstasy
Bridges! Guitar solos! Costumes! You have got to hand it to Brixton quintet The Last Dinner Party: they...
English Teacher cut through the noise of indecision on the beautiful “Mastermind Specialism”
Leeds band English Teacher have had quite a year with the signing to Island Records and a series...
Album Review: Yard Act – The Overload
If first impressions hold any merit, Leeds-based outfit Yard Act tick off all the boxes within this increasingly...
Album Review: The Killers – Pressure Machine
Home can be comforting, familiar and the source of beautiful memories. Conversely, it can also be stifling, insidious...
Please Don’t Reproach Me for How Empty My Life Has Become: PJ Harvey’s White Chalk and its Demos
In the latest of his series of explorations into PJ Harvey’s recent reissues and demos, Matthew Barton investigates...
Tape the Broken Parts Together: PJ Harvey’s Uh Huh Her and Its Demos
Continuing in his series of explorations into PJ Harvey’s recent reissues and demos, Matthew Barton investigates the songwriter’s...
Album Review: Ben Howard – Collections From The Whiteout
Contrasts can be as jarring and brutal as life itself – and singer-songwriter Ben Howard is an excellent...
This is love that I’m feeling: PJ Harvey’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea and its Demos
Following the deep dives into the songwriter’s early work and the dark Is This Desire?, Matthew Barton continues...
Trouble Taking Place: Examining PJ Harvey’s Is This Desire? and Demos
Following on from last year's reissue of her early records and demos, PJ Harvey has just released an expanded version of her 1998 album Is This Desire? Matthew Barton revisits the record and its newly released demos, exploring the mind of a songwriter in artistic turmoil.
