Heart Heart: Withered Hand

I finally got round to seeing Withered Hand recently, and when asked by a friend to describe what it was like I [...]

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An Alt. Christmas 23: Jim White

[There's plenty of great Christmas songs out there, but most suffer terribly from over-exposure.  To remedy that, EbM presents a [...]

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An Alt. Christmas 14: Pictures of Then

[There's plenty of great Christmas songs out there, but most suffer terribly from over-exposure.  To remedy that, EbM presents a [...]

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An Alt. Christmas 06: Frightened Rabbit

[Not everyone loves Christmas songs but I, for one, can't get enough of them.  Every year it seems we get [...]

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Boots Met My Face: Admiral Fallow

Having finished my review of the Moth & The Mirror album I realized that I had yet to review what [...]

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The People’s Key: Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes‘ career can effectively be summed up as a process of movement and discovery; a movement from low-fi to [...]

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Becoming a Jackal: The Villagers

As a rule, I avoid making comparisons when reviewing bands.  It’s all too easy to slip into “they’re like x [...]

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Broadcast 2000: Broadcast 2000

I often wax lyrical about how most of the albums that still stand up as favourites years down the line [...]

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Memoryhouse: Max Richter

I don’t really know where to put this record.  The fact that it was originally released on the BBC’s Late [...]

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Bearfaced Podcast 07: Roll On Summer

Huzzah, summer’s here! After a lovely walk along the Cornish cliffs – and suffering terribly from sunstroke – I took [...]

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