Common Tongues are a Brighton based 5 piece that combine the belly fruit of Bob Dylan and The Beach Boys to create compelling stories of their lives and loves. 2010 was a good year for the band. They formed in the early spring and found themselves on some fun festival dates such as Great Escape, […]
More“Cow” are an acoustic 4-piece soul and pop band with a California sound and a kinda sixties-style kookiness concealing a modish edge, flavoring both their sound and their image. This band would not seem out of place supporting The Mamas & the Papas on the Ready Steady Go! show circa 1966… The band has already […]
MoreDark, relentless and thickly laden with dirty, heavy bass, “Princess You’re A Test” sees Norwich 5-piece Bearsuit take a turn to the dark side. As the fourth single from their recent album The Phantom Forest (released on Fortuna POP! earlier this year) “Princess You’re A Test” is an altogether darker proposition. Guaranteed to set the […]
MoreSomewhere a guitar-note is squeezed out, and startles you, like a wound on the face of an innocent angel…
MoreThe coolness soon whisks up a brisk speed and this suspends momentarliy before plunging splendidly back into the waving chorus “Nothing is awright …” Songs are filled with surprises as sweet as jam …
Moreelectronic impulses shot – hot – like love capsules being sprayed at you from an angry cupid…
More“Bad Bob” is one of the many superb songs on the album. Jangling guitars and plucked strings are rippled with tinkling ivories, reminiscent of warm summer nights in Memphis and splashing about in the creeks with your buddies.
MoreThe oppressive heat of these sounds and the mosquito bites of the sub-text, together with those muttering Will-o’-the-wisp marsh-born guitars, create a sweat stained blanket of melodic loops that lazily crawl around the landscape like snakes on the prowl in the tangle of a mangrove swamp
More“Where are my girls?” She shrieks. “Let all the girls come through – let them come up here – I like to be surrounded by the Women of Rock…” She was soon to be surrounded by her slaughter of innocents.
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