SPIRIT OF EDEN – Talk Talk – 1997 Remaster THIS album got its first listen by me around 2007, so I was a late adopter. It’s one of those albums that just hasn’t ever been given much consideration in the TOP 100’s of music journalists over the years. Why? I think it’s because Mark Hollis,…
Read articleSCOTTISH songwriters ASTRID are heading for a busy New Year with another single and a string of live dates to follow. ‘Through the Darkness of Your Life’ is taken from the bands earlier Storm Sessions EP and gets its own long-awaited release on January 22nd 2022. “We went about this single throughout the lockdown so Willie [Campbell]…
Read articleTHE PAINKILLERS is the solo project of Welsh singer songwriter Jason Hughes — the former guitarist and co-songwriter of The Holy Coves. Despite living with a degenerative back issue which has left him unable to perform live, he has somehow managed to write, record, produce and release, ‘Sit Down,’ an album full of grand, distant echoes…
Read articleLONDONPEAKY invites a different musician each week to select the one album that would accompany them to their desert island. Today please welcome our favourite ‘Musical Scientific Musician Scientist,’ OrangeG. IF stranded, I would be hard pressed to find a disc that broke the silence as well as Bright Eyes’ 2002 masterpiece, ‘Lifted or The…
Read articleWELCOME TO LONDONPEAKY’S weekly Friday review. Grab yourselves a drink and put your feet up, there’s something for everyone. Featured today: Kyoto’s monk-a-tonk, ROBIN GUTHRIE, New York’s BLACK ROSE BURNING and SIMON BROMIDE. FORMED by Tetsuya Kirihata, oriental soulful pop rock band ‘monk-a-tonk’ began life in October 2019. Heavily influenced by funk, jazz, Latin and hip-hop, their first single, ‘Soredake’ relied more…
Read articleNEW YORK-BASED Loops & Loops began as a side project during the height of the quarantine, mostly experimenting with lofi, although musician and producer Pete Bogolub, who writes and records the tunes has been making music for quite some time. He’s already released several lofi/indie albums, but his newer material harkens back to indie roots…
Read articleFROM THE MUPPETS TO MAHLER, Leicester’s Matt Steady has always listened to ‘something’ which perhaps explains why his musical output remains not only so varied, but also prodigious. And now, turning his back on his science career – a masters in physics with space science and technology – he earns his living through his first…
Read articleA RECORD I would take to a desert island? An extremely difficult question. In fact, it would be hard to choose even just 10 such albums. Okay, but we have to pick one….first association, first thought? ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico,’ for sure. From the very first sounds of the dulcimer, I got chills –…
Read articleWELCOME TO LONDONPEAKY’S weekly Friday review, grab a brew and put your feet up, there’s something for everyone. Today, AMMO, SILVER HAAR and ECHO. DREAMY and dark reverie-bound ethereal artist AMMO presents the spellbinding song, ‘A Cold War City,’ released today via California-based Mourning Sun Records. This cavernous offering, just short of five minutes, unfolds like a Lynchian lullaby. “A Cold War…
Read articleLIES AND LEGENDS, the new album from Atlanta’s ‘I Am a Rocketship,’ continues to win acclaim from critics and fans alike. But recent online comparisons with Garbage have somewhat missed the mark. This is an album impossible to pigeonhole, with lyrics that demand attention, even action perhaps, it’s a call to arms, and right now…
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