Melanie McGovern

Russian Red & Rachel Sermanni @ Union Chapel

Russian Red & Rachel Sermanni @ Union Chapel

by Melanie McGovern 31 January 2012 Live Reviews

Read our live review of Russian Red & Rachel Sermanni’s performance at Union Chapel and watch video highligts of the evening.

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Exclusive: Gardens and Villa Interview

by Melanie McGovern 9 November 2011 Features

Melanie McGovern talks to Gardens and Villa and delves into their past and musical influences.

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Anna Calvi @ Shepherd's Bush Empire

Anna Calvi @ Shepherd’s Bush Empire

by Melanie McGovern 9 November 2011 Live Reviews

Melanie Mcovern managed to catch Mercury nominee Anna Calvi at her sell out show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire earlier this month.

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Piney Gir – Geronimo!

by Melanie McGovern 4 November 2011 Reviews

★★★★★
Angela Penhaligon’s moniker Piney Gir releases a stomping countrified affair of lovable (for a time) circa ’60s pop numbers on Geronimo!

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Review: Larsen - Cool Cruel Mouth

Larsen – Cool Cruel Mouth

by Melanie McGovern 31 October 2011 Reviews

★★★
At times Larsen’s ‘Cool Cruel Month’ is a nutshell of timeless songwriting; an encasement of influences from a string of decades from 40s through to the late 60s and early 70s.

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Live Review: Yann Tiersen @ The Roundhouse

Yann Tiersen @ The Roundhouse

by Melanie McGovern 25 October 2011 Live Reviews

Melanie McGovern heads to the unique space at Camden’s Roundhouse for a performance by Yann Tiersen.

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Good Luck Mountain - Good Luck Mountain

Good Luck Mountain – Good Luck Mountain

by Melanie McGovern 21 October 2011 Reviews

★★★★
Good Luck Mountain is the new project from Tandy frontman Mike Ferrio, it covers a vast spread of genres from complex rock to soul and minimal ambiance.

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Lüüp – Meadow Rituals

by Melanie McGovern 17 October 2011 Reviews

★★★
Lüüp, the brainchild of flautist Stelios Romaliadis, is essentially a work of opposites: at times dark and archaic, at others light and melodic…

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Wilderness of Manitoba @ The Slaughtered Lamb

Wilderness of Manitoba @ The Slaughtered Lamb

by Melanie McGovern 11 October 2011 Live Reviews

Melanie heads to the Slaughtered Lamb to catch Canada’s ‘Wilderness of Manitoba’ who put on a great show!

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Bleeding Heart Narrative - Bison EP

Bleeding Heart Narrative – Bison EP

by Melanie McGovern 10 October 2011 Reviews

★★★★
London sextet Bleeding Heart Narrative are set to release their first EP ‘Bison’ with Brainlove Records. Read our review.

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Tiny Ruins - Some Were Meant for Sea

Tiny Ruins – Some Were Meant for Sea

by Melanie McGovern 3 October 2011 Reviews

★★★
Tiny Ruin’s debut album, Some Were Meant for Sea, paints tender and quaint stories of fictitious, perhaps allegorical figures that are as vivid as the climes in which they are placed.

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Album Review: Maria Taylor - Overlook

Maria Taylor – Overlook

by Melanie McGovern 3 October 2011 Reviews

★★★
Maria Taylor’s fourth solo release, Overlook, fixes itself firmly in a familiar location, embodying a sound created with a closeknit set of musicians plucked from Taylor’s close friends and family.

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Downpilot - New Great Lakes

Downpilot – New Great Lakes

by Melanie McGovern 29 September 2011 Reviews

★★★
Paul Hiraga’s Downpilot latest release, New Great Lakes, was recorded in the woodland setting of Seattle’s Vashon Island, and herein captured is the more intimate, solo affair this fourth Downpilot outing harbours.

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Jeffrey Lewis - A Turn in the Dream-Songs

Jeffrey Lewis – A Turn in the Dream-Songs

by Melanie McGovern 27 September 2011 Reviews

★★★★★
Initially ‘A Turn in the Dream-Songs’ plays out as a far less angsty affair than other helpings from New York based musician Jeffrey Lewis but there is little letting up in the talent of our comic book songwriter.

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Small Houses - North

Small Houses – North

by Melanie McGovern 23 September 2011 Reviews

★★★★★
Michigan based band Small Houses return with their second LP North. Composed entirely by guitarist/vocalist Jeremy Quentin, featuring helping hands from fellow musicians Chris Bathgate and Jim Roll, alongside members of Frontier Ruckus and Red Tail Ring.

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Interview: The Wilderness of Manitoba

Interview: The Wilderness of Manitoba

by Melanie McGovern 19 September 2011 Features

We chat to Will Whitwham of Canadian five-piece The Wilderness of Manitoba ahead of their short stop over in London, and debut European release When You Left the Fire.

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Orienteers - Orienteers

Orienteers – Orienteers

by Melanie McGovern 16 September 2011 Reviews

★★★★★
Orienteers’ eponymous second release is a hazy, fragile, almost celestial sounding appreciation of travel (hence the name), and it follows up 2008′s Staying Places; released by the same folk under their original guise That’s the Spirit.

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King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Honest Words EP

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Honest Words EP

by Melanie McGovern 15 September 2011 Reviews

★★★★★
Honest Words may clock in at just over 10 minutes; this time whisking us away from the Fife landscape, yet it plays out as a suitable follow up to King Creosote & Jon Hopkins‘ Mercury nominated Diamond Mine.

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