Crows return with third album Reason Enough having taken the sandpaper to some of their sharpest edges. The London four-piece have built a formidable reputation for their leaden take on post punk, which here is occasionally tempered to produce their most accessible tunes to date, but with no compromise on the poise and attitude.
Very much a comedown album, each of the eight pieces fuse soothing ambient and abrasive industrial, creating a droning hypnotic otherworldly soundscape, eerily redolent of contemporary science fiction cinema.
They couldn’t have known, could they? Enumclaw have long called themselves the “best band since Oasis”, and in the run up to the release of their second album the Gallagher brothers announced their big reunion out of the blue. A matter of hours before Home in Another Life hit the shelves, tickets for the Manchester legends’ UK tour went on sale. We’ll leave it to the conspiracy theorists from here.
Anyone naming a song ‘The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion 1973’ who then manages to make the end product an unforgettable 4-minute pop-art mini epic probably needs to be taken seriously.
The brilliant new single from Bristol alt-indie darlings Adult Leisure perfectly captures a top-down, wind-in-the-hair joyride which, in this case, is probably one heading north on the M5.
Experimental Cleveland quartet’s eighth album release, their first in half a decade, takes its title from a line within third track ‘Brand New’, a shimmering summery pop song comprising a splendidly cathartic yet mature take on the impact of emotional turmoil, a recurring theme throughout this 14-song offering.
