Feature – Psalms

Droning punk passion and attitude from the dream drone three-piece Feature (featuring members of Sauna Youth and Slowcoaches), Psalm is hazy and blissful garage, through an amphetamine fuelled attitude and guitar heavy guaze. Taken from their new EP, Culture of the Copy, available to buy on cassette and digital download from 5 May. Although if

Coves – Beating

Beautiful strings and sketchy beats, glitchy synths and soaring wails, soft cooing vocals and powerful assertions, vulnerable verses and acidic cutting choruses, on new song Beating Coves have taken every genre, every sound, every tactic, every noise, thrown them together without depleting the power of the individual but making every single one greater than the some

Music For The Download Generation – Is The Album Dead?

Album sales are down, talented musicians are raising their doubts about the future format, and the listening mode of choice is the ‘shuffle’ button. Is the album on its way out? The facts from the BPI would suggest so. In 2008 album sales were down 3.2%, which at least had slowed from 2007′s 10.% decrease.