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Michael Bernard Fitzgerald: Love Valley
One of the things we have learnt in 2020 is how much we value the small things in life; the intimacy of just being with someone, creating memories, feeling love, feeling at home. Although we may have valued those things before, it's taken a global pandemic for us to...
English Rain: Echoes of You
As I write, I'm sitting in rain lashed London, listening to an eminently listenable band called English Rain, who hail from Australia. Strangely, although I've not tended to write often about Australian musicians, this is the second in succession and the third in the...
Sarah Jane: Tainted Timeline
Australian singer and songwriter Sarah Jane has made a name for herself in the world of alt rock and her second album, Tainted Timeline, released on 23 October, is another venture into this genre, with more than a smattering of folk tones added to the mix. Written and...
Broken Radio: Twerk and Twang
German artist Broken Radio isn't afraid to mix it up, blurring the lines between genres of music and adding sounds to categories of music that you would never think of bringing together and this innovation screams out from his latest release, Twerk and Twang. The...
Sam Dickinson: Off Script
For a lot of people, music in the 1990's was all about soul and disco influenced pop, with big sounds, lots of synths and lots of danceability. Happily, Sam Dickinson's latest album, Off Script, is heavily laced with all these sounds and is just what's needed in the...
Forgotten Garden: Broken Pieces
New Scottish duo Forgotten Garden (Ines Dias Rebelo and Danny Elliott) have embraced the art of writing about that most universal of themes, love, by producing a tight four track EP that tells the story of a break up from initial implosion to a glimmer of a hopeful...
Songs for Sabotage: Night of Joy
At first listen, Night of Joy, the debut album from former New Yorkers, now LA based, Songs for Sabotage, takes you back to the 1980's and 1990's and the sweet sounds of Swedish duo Roxette. It's not all that surprising then that one of the major influences on Richey...
Astraea: Tonight I Run
London based, US born musician Astraea is a one woman musical phenomenon, both behind and in front of the microphone. As a performer and a producer, with a masters in music therapy, Astraea proves the old adage that if you want something done, you ask a busy person. ...
Eliza Jaye: Middle Child
Australian performer Eliza Jaye succumbed to cancer earlier this year but she had been working on and recording an album of songs for a while before that and that album is now due for posthumous release in a couple of weeks. Middle Child is that album and was recorded...