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Webcuts Top 25 Albums of 2008

By |January 22nd, 2009|Categories: Album Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Ladies and gentlemen, the envelope please! Webcuts favourite albums of 2008 as argued and fought over by us, including star-studded appearances from Beach House, My Morning Jacket, Fleet Foxes, Nick Cave, Santogold, Okkervil River and many more...

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The Monochrome Set – The Independent Singles Collection

By |April 12th, 2008|Categories: Album Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Cherry Red, 2008 [7/10] England 1979 -- punk was morphing into the more experimental post-punk and saw landmark releases from PiL, Gang of Four, The Cure, Joy Division and The Pop Group. And then...then there

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Austra – London – 6 September 2011

By |September 8th, 2011|Categories: Live Reviews|Tags: , , , , |

Having changed careers mid-stream from a piano-based singer-songwriter with a touch of the Regina Spectors to a Nico-esque bleach-blonde gothic siren, in Austra Katie Stelmanis has found the form to match the function. With a handful of impressive singles released either side of their Kate Bush meets Nine Inch Nails debut album Feel It Break, Stelmanis may have found her creative niche but she still has much to prove. On record, Austra cloak themselves in a throbbing monochrome blanket, but on stage their live show is more telling, more vibrant and commanding, as Stelmanis, flanked by a pair of interpretive dancers/backing vocalists, add any absent colour.

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