It is not patronising to call the Cocktail -Slippers ”“ five women from Norway who make their own garage-rock racket and sing their you-done-me-wrong songs with avenging-angel-army harmonies ”“ a girl group. It’s straight shooting. ...
New Sounds of Olde England History keeps repeating itself on Carbeth (Honest Jon’s), the intoxicating debut album by Trembling Bells. The English-Scottish quartet essentially revive an earlier revival: the rediscovery and amplification, in the Sixties ...
A Lone Fleet Fox In a city of cacophony ”“ Austin during SXSW ”“ the sweetest sound is often the one you strain to hear. Fleet Foxes drummer-singer J Tillman was a paragon of near-silence ...