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Source: album artwork Words by Alexandra Rose Easy FM is the latest release from Premium Leisure, the brainchild of Willie J Healey guitarist Chris Barker. Overflowing with good vibrations designed to soothe restless souls this 4 track EP brims with the optimism of balmy summer evenings and cloudless skies while generously sharing with the listener … Continue reading EP Review: Premium Leisure – Easy FM
Album artwork Words by Grey Malkin Glasgow's Big Hogg have become a beloved and recognisable fixture on that city's music scene, regularly collaborating with local fellow travellers such as members of the much missed Trembling Bells, as well as with visiting luminaries such as Ex Reverie (the band recently backed Gillian Chadwick on her and Julia … Continue reading Album review: Big Hogg – Pageant of Beasts
Source: album artwork Words by Lady Godiva Is the world bringing you down? Take a time machine pill to yesteryear's colorful and vibrant universe with Daniel Griffin's analog concept record, You're Gonna Lose Your Mind. Get ready for a trip down the rabbit hole, on par with Alice in Wonderland. First, you are told you're … Continue reading Album review: Daniel M. Griffin – You’re Gonna Lose Your Mind
Source: album artwork Words by Grey Malkin Matt Berry, musician, actor, voiceover and writer, is undoubtedly something of a renaissance man. For the general public he is perhaps best recognised from his television work as characters such as Toast of London, Sanchez from Darkplace or Beef from House of Fools. However, Berry has also been … Continue reading Album review: Matt Berry – The Blue Elephant
Source: album artwork Words by Alexandra Dominica One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small - go ask Alice when she’s ten feet tall. Follow this LA quartet down the rabbit hole and you’ll find this technicoloured Electric Looking Glass. MOOF Magazine are delighted to announce the debut LP from this many-hued … Continue reading Album review: Electric Looking Glass – Somewhere Flowers Grow
Source: album artwork Words by Alexandra Dominica There is a storm brewing in America at the moment - anger, passion, rebellion, disquietude - you might say it is a country on the precipice of a revolution. You might say, the music industry, community and the American people are indeed at their ‘wits end.’ This restlessness … Continue reading Album review: Garcia Peoples – Nightcap At Wits End
Source: album artwork Words by Lady Godiva “Release the bats! Release the bats! Pump them up and explode the things.” Nearly four decades after The Birthday Party's "Release The Bats'”, the mystical creatures of darkness are still an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Fun fact, Batcave was recorded at Swamp Land, another reference to the iconic … Continue reading Album review: The Drama Kings – Batcave
The Knee Hi's Words by Alexandra Dominica Only formed recently towards the very end of last year, rubber soul-suited and go-go booted power-pop outfit The Knee Hi’s offer us well needed, wholesome respite of musical simplicity and visual experimental romanticism. The dreamy Chicago-based four-piece have released just one single, ‘Darlin, Darlin’, a track with dark … Continue reading Band to watch: The Knee Hi’s
Album cover artwork by Sara Gossett Words by Alexandra Dominica Ah psych-pop...Harpsichords, sitars, fuzz guitars, reverse recording, and Beach Boys harmonies married together with pop, culminating in gorgeous melodically ornate songs. Hailing from London’s underground neo-psych scene, the baroque honey-drenched Green Seagull return from the ether again bringing us a myriad of delights in their … Continue reading Album review: Green Seagull – Cloud Cover