Scott Hepple and The Sun Band: Lammas (Self-released) LP/CASS/DL Released: 3rd May, 2024 Pre-Order here Newcastle based psych-rockers Scott Hepple and the Sun Band aren’t letting the grass grow under their amps. Having released their debut album, Ashes to Wildflowers (which we reviewed here) only last year, they already have the follow up in the […] The post Scott Hepple and The Sun Band: Lammas – Album Review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

Andy Shauf: Norm (Anti-) LP | CD | DL Out 10th February 2023   Andy Shauf returns with Norm, moving away from the clear long-form storytelling of Neon Skyline to produce twelve vignettes of everyday life after a chance encounter. On Andy Shauf’s last full-album release, The Neon Skyline, he produced a full story of […] The post Andy Shauf: Norm – Album Review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

Beans On Toast: The Toothpaste And The Tube (Self-released via BOT Music) CD | LP | DL Buy Here It’s that time of year when the nights are getting longer, the dawn is breaking with a frost encrusted covering on the grass and the intrepid storytelling troubadour Beans On Toast delivers his annual birthday treat… […] The post Beans On Toast: The Toothpaste And The Tube – Album Review – ALBUM OF THE WEEK appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

Emma Tricca Rain And Tears (Bella Union) ST/DL Released: 8 December 2023 Aphrodite’s Child cover beautifully rendered. Emma Tricca, whose album Aspirin Sun (reviewed here) deservedly made the Louder Than War Albums of 2023, is seeing out the year with a cover of Aphrodite’s Child’s Rain And Tears, with a video created by Julian Hand. […] The post Emma Tricca: Rain And Tears – Single Review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

Merry Hell: Let The Music Speak For Itself Available on 2 x CD and download A first ‘best of’ ever album review in Louder Than War for Wigan’s best-kept secret, the brilliant folk-rock outfit Merry Hell, who released a career-spanning 2CD retrospective compilation featuring 28 of their most popular anthems and ballads taken from the […] The post Merry Hell – Let The Music Speak For Itself (compilation album review) appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

Emma Tricca & Bridget St John Rubies (Bella Union) ST/DL Released: 22nd September 2023 Lush single from Emma Tricca, with folk legend Bridget St John. When a legend agrees to work with a contemporary singer songwriter, it becomes more than a collaboration, it is a confirmation of new blood, not a passing of the torch […] The post Emma Tricca & Bridget St John: Rubies – Single Review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

Suzanne Vega Bridgewater Hall, Manchester 20th February 2023 Suzanne Vega makes another visit to her second home, in an anything but a sedate evening of stories and acoustic grit in the perfect splendour of The Bridgewater Hall, writes our correspondent MK Bennett. “When to the sessions of sweet silent thought, I summon up remembrance of […] The post Suzanne Vega: Bridgewater Hall, Manchester – live review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

The Coral: Sea Of Mirrors / Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show (Run On Records) Released 8th September 2023 The Coral return with not one, but two albums of 60s-soaked psych-folk as they hit a new purple patch in their two-decade career. BUY SEA OF MIRRORS HERE BUY HOLY JOE’S CORAL ISLAND MEDICINE SHOW HERE […] The post The Coral: Sea Of Mirrors / Holy Joe’s Coral Island Medicine Show – ALBUMS OF THE WEEK appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

Amigo The Devil Night & Day, Manchester 5th April 2022 When Amigo The Devil last played in Manchester in February 2020, he was expecting to be back in about eight months’ time. But then of course the world virtually shut down shortly afterwards, having a devastating impact on the world of entertainment. Now two years […] The post Amigo The Devil: Night And Day, Manchester – live review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more

Lisa O’Neill: All Of This Is Chance (Rough Trade) LP | CD | DL Released February 10th. Lisa O’Neill’s All Of This Is Chance is a delicate piece of work and is reflective of her greatest moments. Following 2019’s EP The Wren, an adaptation of Bob Dylan’s All The Tired Horses, which featured in the […] The post Lisa O’Neill: All Of This Is Chance – album review appeared first on Louder Than War ..read more