Music

Clean Bandit – New Eyes: Review

 Steven Kellow    Music  

In the wake of Disclosure’s success in bringing house music to the top of the charts, as well as to the dancefloors and iPods across the country, their particular brand of music has been almost inescapable.  Countless copycat acts have emerged from the underground woodwork, showing off the same type of funky dance music that London’s top duo have helped popularise. Clean Bandit fall into this category, but provide their own unique twist on the genre.  The quartet, who met each other at university in — Read more →

Songs of the Month: May 2014

 Steven Kellow    Music  

May’s been a month dominated by the spectre of revision for me, and the longing desire for summer, so it’s meant I’ve spent many an hour listening to my eclectic iTunes mix of music.  Here’s a few of the songs that I’ve played most often this month, with some new ones and old ones mixed in: The Killers – “Just Another Girl” One of the new songs from last year’s “Best Of” album by The Killers, Direct Hits, I really don’t think I gave “Just — Read more →

Hot Fuss – 10 Years On

 Steven Kellow    Music  

The icons of alternative rock are often fleeting, but one band has stayed on top for longer than almost any other: The Killers.  If I told you that their debut Hot Fuss landed in the UK 10 years ago today, I’m sure you would be surprised.  It was an album chock-full of some of the finest pop rock and angsty ballads you’ll ever likely to hear and the record that launched The Killers into stardom and perpetual reference as THE band of the decade.  Although — Read more →

Songs of the Month: April 2014

 Steven Kellow    Music  

This month wasn’t much of a month for finding new songs but rediscovering ones on my iPod that I hadn’t given the chance they deserved.  It’s a mix of deep house, a touch of drum and bass, and a healthy kick of London beat (almost reggae) in there too and they all blend into each other quite nicely.  It might seem like an unusual mix, but I can assure you they are all great songs. Clean Bandit – “Dust Clears” “Rather Be” was a rather — Read more →

The Hoosiers – The News from Nowhere: Review

 Steven Kellow    Music  

The Hoosiers are one of my favourite bands, with their first album being perhaps one of my favourite of all time and their second producing some of my favourite songs.  It’s always worrying when you don’t hear much of a band for a while, and it had been three years-plus before The Hoosiers’ announced that they would be releasing a new album: The News from Nowhere.  After splitting with their label Sony, rightfully because of the way they promoted, or rather didn’t, their last album — Read more →

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