Subscribe Chelmsford dreampoppers, MAGIC SEAS, today (26 April) released their superb second LP, Everything Has Led Me To Here. Mark Gardener, of RIDE, once again took the helm and navigated the production waters. Brothers John and James Prudence kindly took the time to answer a few questions. I wanted to find out what, in fact, were some of the things, maybe not EVERYTHING, that has led them to this point in their lives and joint recording career. Kontakte: Finite Methodologies For Denouement Jane Weaver @ The Castle and Falcon da Googie and Too Many Things collaboration Feel the Energ ..read more

2 minutes Check out the video below to Uncle Kid’s haunting cover of Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’. With dark, broody, understated trip hop and spoken word, Uncle Kid turns Satchmo’s 1967 classic on its head. Uncle Kid It’s not for nothing that the Scottish musician’s music has drawn favourable comparisons with the likes of Massive Attack and Arab Strap. Uncle Kid told Even Butterflies Make A Sound: “I wanted to try my hand at something completely different. Louis Armstrong’s joyful delivery of ‘What a Wonderful World’ feels totally at odds with the sort of doubt-fuelled music I ..read more

So, I was invited to DJ for the first time and provide a psyche set. At least that’s what I think my brief was. I ran with that anyway. After a couple of lessons on the ones and twos with the event organiser, and feeling a bit nervous, I took the plunge at Voodoo Keller, a popular bar in Chelmsford. The venue was pretty busy at seven o’clock on a Saturday evening in the other two rooms, but in the section in which the turntables/dancefloor were located there was but one interested spectator: my tutor. I thought it’d be fun to name tracks I played, and explain why I chose them, so please read o ..read more

Certain elements of Our Final Invention may well be familiar to those who took more than a passing interest in Britpop. Or what followed that scene to be precise. That’s because the nucleus of Our Final Invention (Mark Gill [guitars/programming] and Richard Nancollis [vocals]) were also in Manchester’s The Rain Band. The Rain Band certainly had all the elements in place to become The Next Great Manchester Band. Good looks, an attitude, killer tunes, massive crossover potential. It didn’t happen for them. It’s not an unusual tale. An invention of a new guise Now Our Final Invention has launched ..read more

Legendary Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie caps off a hugely productive year with the release of a new EP ‘Riviera’. This follows the ‘Mockingbird Love’ four-track EP in October and the Pearldiving LP in November. ‘Mockingbird Love’ was his first new music since Another Flower, the 2020 album he released with Harold Budd just days before Budd’s death. It’s Guthrie’s first solo work since Fortune in 2021. About ‘Riviera’, Guthrie said: “I made this collection earlier this year while taking a break from recording Pearldiving. I found a common thread among several un ..read more