Review by Joy Thomas

This EP is TOO TINY. I want MORE. Dammit.

The first time I listened to this I didn’t read any of the PR bumf that came with it and it reminded me of when I first heard Mumford and Sons. I thought Matthew and the Atlas must have been a bit peeved [...]

Review by Paul Francisco

Kicking off the opening track of their debut album with a harmonica melody lifted directly out of Neil Young’s From Hank To Hendrix might suggest that the lazily-monikered country-rock trio Society might similarly (and rather presumptuously) be attempting to write themselves into a cultural heritage that is also far-from-native to their homeland [...]

Review by MR Wallis

“If it’s not teenagers, it’s fucking hipsters,” blurted my friend Grace. We were sitting on the eighth row of The Lowry’s purple Lyric Theatre, surrounded by old men and women, posh people and throngs of twelve-year-olds with large bushes of hair, smelling of bubblegum: “I love music, but I hate people who [...]

Review by Hazel Davis

Oh there are SO many things about this disc that make me want to hate it. The title alone – For Whom The Willow Weeps – makes me want to beat myself around the head with a diabolo. I got halfway through the lyrics sheet and I had to have a lie [...]

Leon Rosselson celebrated his 75th birthday last year, and 50 years of
writing and singing topical and political song. A luddite at heart,
Leon was still writing his songs and books on his typewriter when the
rest of us were embracing word processors and computers. Yet, when a song is written specially for the election and has a [...]