At a recording pace of around one album per year since being signed as a solo artist, Frank Turner is definitely an artist for whom I have a fair amount of respect: his punk ethic has not been lost since his change of pace from Million Dead to his folk-rock efforts as Frank Turner. The [...]
I am fully aware that this album was released ten years ago, but I find music anything but ephemeral: the very nature of the CD/vinyl-press permits music to live for as long as it is desired to be played. Now that this pseudo-philosophical point addressing the nature of music and its transience has been dealt [...]
With the demise of Starve in Heaven, I felt that this deserved a repost. James Summerfield’s MySpace Birmingham seems to be at the forefront of a new wave of folk- and country-inspired music, with the likes of Sam Bentley, Friends of the Stars etc. coming to the favour of ourselves and other local media. And [...]
Yes, Ben Marwood is yet another British singer-songwriter; yes, Ben Marwood is yet another pretty boy who can play guitar; and yes, Ben Marwood does sell his records in HMV (call me an indie snob, I do not care). All of this perceived negativity, however, is mere prejudice and doesn’t even hold up to the [...]