High Voltage

Atlanta’s finest musical export Deerhunter have released the official video for ‘Helicopter’, a track taken from their superb new album Halcyon Digest. Frontman Bradford Cox is the brains behind the video, marking the band’s first foray into the ‘audio-visual’ world. Halcyon Digest is a truly wonderful album that consolidates Deerhunter’s...

The covers record is a tricky beast to review. It generally consists of half hearted attempts at refashioning original hits which end up sounding like karaoke rip offs. Occasionally they do throw up inspired collaborations such as the Buena Vista Social Club reinterpretation of hits with current artists or even Futureheads cover of Kate Bush’s classic Hound’s of Love which...

Ok, I want you to stay calm, but I have to tell you something. See, I went out into the woods and there were these puppets… and they were so upset about something. They sang a bunch of really pretty, melancholy songs to try and articulate the way they were feeling, and somehow I could tell that the experience had been cathartic for them.

When I left and went home to my...

21-year-old Florrie is a multi-talented British and box-fresh new artist ready to make her own indelible impression on 2010’s wonderfully varied musical landscape. A drummer, singer, songwriter and guitarist, Florrie is the former Xenomania house-band drummer, and has now fought her way out from behind the band to take centre stage with her own music.

July 19th marked the...

For anybody interested in this kind of music, Elohymn are a band to get really excited about. Taking the instrumental post rock of And So I Watch You From Afar and marrying it to the math-prog virtuosity of early Oceansize, they take up the Manchester underground progressive mantle and run it through a flanger pedal over a jazz-drumming breakdown.

While there’s a...

Stemming from founder Fran Barker’s interest in the weird and wonderful of musical instruments, Manchester’s Seerabuer Jenny concoct an intriguing blend of earthy shoegaze folk with an electronic edge thanks in part to the other member in the duo being Neil ‘Mint Royale’ Claxon.

With a sound both rich in experimentation and self belief, they create warm...

"Am I miserable because I listen to pop music?" Introducing: Meursault.

Anybody with their ear to the ground at the moment knows that exciting things are afoot in Edinburgh, no more so than in alternative- folksters Meursault, whose recent slot at Glastonbury was a masterclass in punching above your weight as a band. Radio regulars will have probably heard the fantastic ‘Crank...