Brendan Telford, Journalist

Features / Music

"It’s a natural progression because I constantly evolve, which helps when not feeling bogged down by what people’s expectations are of what you should or could be."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Adalita - All Day Venus

It is here that Adalita feels truly at home, using the brutality of noise to cushion the blows of her personal demons.

Features / Music

Out Of The Ruins

"I’ve often tried to write songs with a preconceived idea in mind that I want to write about, yet it never works for me; those songs have always come out as duds."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Pure Bathing - Culture Moon Tides

Eschewing generation shifts and elegiac hazes, Moon Tides ebbs and flows, a quietly resonant listen.

Features / Music

“I think I’m an urban creature at heart, but I really needed to tune out a lot of noise. Not so much the city, but the internet."

Features / Music

Counting Down The Days

“There’s certainly no game plan about what we do; we might have an idea or two, but not much else."

Features / Music

"I’m a violinist, having trained since I was four; I hadn’t even held an electric instrument until I was 18."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Hausu - Total

Hausu have crafted an album in Total that smashes through punk rock’s brick walls by emphasising precision, post-punk wailings and moans

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Swim Deep - Where The Heaven Are We

Their debut album swings closer to the sun than it does to the sewer – expect these guys to grace festivals on a global summer march, marking the top of festivalgoers’ “pleasant surprise” lists.

The Ocean Party Ditched Their Egos For Latest Album

No place for big-heads during the creation of 'Split'

Features / Music

Splitting The Ocean

“The songs start fairly skeletal, and we start to put the meat on the bones."

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Summer Flake - You Can Have It All

Crase’s vocals are soft, worn, yet defiant – and on songs like Blue and Naked Or Nude, she shows a canny familiarity around pop conventions too. Crase really can have it all.

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