There are some records that I sit on for far too long, but then again sometimes when you put it on again with fresh ears with the sun darting through the window you can experience it in a whole new l...
Last week we featured the enthralling Savages (twitter) as a band to watch, and today we have the other A-side of Husbands with Flying To Berlin. It is more dark and cinematic post-punk spilling with...
After enjoying both critical and commercial success with Welcome to Condale, Summer Camp (facebook/twitter) are back with a new EP next month on Mosh Moshi. More will bring five spanking new tracks t...
In a rough form, the latest album from Toby Hayes, the former Meet Me in St. Louis frontman, and sometime bass player for Shield Your Eyes, has been done for a while. When Tubelord were warming up to...
Remember these guys? Well, you should do: House of Commons was a rather brilliant debut that seemed to come as if from nowhere for me back in 2009, and I had been wondering recently just where White ...
Back in February, Edinburgh’s Capitals [Website/Facebook] caught our attention with their debut AA-side single, and are set to release some more new material next week. Second single All These ...
Earlier this month I introduced Rituel, the house alliance formed by Christophe Monier (aka The Micronauts) and Thomas Regnault (aka Dew Town Mayor) – but today we’ve got the heart-stoppi...
Sons Between Guns (facebook/twitter) is Paul Trivett And Thomas Whitelaw, two South East London boys, that craft elegant yet almost industrial sounds but always with a soul. Never scared to show thei...
With a name that induces memories of childhood games of imagination, making forts out of little but cardboard boxes and pillows, I Can Chase Dragons! (facebook/twitter) is the side project from the M...
Angus Young, when speaking about the new Liars [Facebook/Website] record last month, admitted, ‘I don’t think I’ve been this scared of a record we made since Drum’s Not Dead.&...
Blending the intensity of Joy Divison and the fun-party-punk sounds of Siouxie And The Banshees are London-based all-girl band Savages – their intelligent lyrics and cutting guitar lines make the mat...
Jake Bugg [Website/Twitter/Facebook] is having an extremely productive year. He’s released one single already (the fantastic Trouble Town), lit up UK radio with support from Zane Lowe, Huw Step...
Perennial Walrus favourite Gabriel Bruce [Facebook] is back with a double EP (yes, that is a thing that exists), entitled Dark Lights Shine Loud / A Brief and Selfish Lover, and the entire thing is a...
It would have been horribly cruel if We’ll Be the Moon had fallen short of expectations, not to mention extremely ironic. With its title, and the album’s cosmic sound, the Oxford group, p...
It’s always surprising when one stumbles upon a great band out of nowhere, but in the case of Brooklynites Carousel [Website/Facebook] – again with the Brooklynites! They seem to be respo...
Ever since I first wrapped my ears around their demos last summer, I have had a hard time guarding my excitement about Alt-J (facebook/twitter) as we have come closer and closer to the release of the...
Musically speaking, Leeds is known for a number of things, but anthemic pop-rock hasn’t really been one of them, until now at least. All that seems set to change now that The Chevin are on the ...
One of the most exciting prospects of 2012 are a band who are clearly influenced by what’s gone before, but not in thrall to it, instead putting their own spin on the genre of music in which th...
Sometimes, music has the most effect when it is stripped back to its rawest. Every so often, one longs for the what is simply the sound of people in a room: no frills, no gimmicks, no pretensions ...
One thing that cannot be disputed about music is its ability to transport the listener, to another place, and sometimes, a completely different era. China Rats are a rock’nroll quartet from Lee...
I had an interesting, albeit brief, Twitter conversation earlier in the week, in which someone raised the point that ‘too many mistake seriousness in pop for intelligence and fun for stupidity....
There is no doubt that Alt-J (facebook/twitter) are one of the most special bands to have appeared over the last few years, and now it is only ten days until the release of their debut record entitle...
I’ve mentioned before that live music is where our collective Walrus hearts lie, and following from that we’ve teamed up with some other fantastic music bloggers in putting together Symbi...
Electric Guest deserve praise for completely wrong-footing expectations. Comprised of Asa Taccone and Matthew Compton, the LA duo chose the name because it had stuck with Taccone since the day someon...
Both Mafia Lights (facebook/twitter) and Amusement (facebook/twitter) have been Bands to watch on these very pages, so it’s a lovely suprise that the two of them have come together on this trac...
Things are starting to pick up for this London band, who are set to embark on a UK headline tour next week, which is just another milestone they’ve hit this year. Broken Hands [Twitter/Facebook...
Just to clear up any confusion: Billy Vincent [Twitter/Facebook] is not a man; it is a band. The band name utilises the first and last name of the two members of the band who handle lead vocals and g...
I’ve headed over to each To Kill A King‘s open mic nights that go by the name of Play All The Things and the quality of new artists and bands has always been impressive – a great pl...
It’s Friday and times for our weekly round up of some of the best remixes to grace our ears over the past week. Jay Lamar & Jesse Oliver have taken A.N.D.Y. & Vicente‘s 80s-inlf...
I wonder how many words will pass before the fact that that this EP’s creator is only 17 is brought up. In the case of this review, the answer is (appropriately enough) 17. It’s very hard...
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