Massive Attack: Splitting The Atom EP
Like all Massive Attack music, Splitting The Atom solves a few mysteries, but points to exponentially more.
Hockey + Little Comets: Bodega Social Club, Nottingham
With a bit of imagination, the hazy smoke-machine induced fog that hung over Hockey’s Nottingham Bodega Social Club leg of their tour could have given the gig a touch of Stars In Their Eyes about it.
Wild Beasts: Two Dancers
Two Dancers will continue to surprise; it is an album that listeners can continue to peel to find new layers of sound underneath.
Ian Brown: My Way
My Way is an engaging and entertaining album – less dark and overtly political than The World Is Yours, but with all the feelgood beats and rich orchestration that always make Ian Brown such a damn good listen.
Boo blog: Autumn #2
Singer-songwriter Boo Hewerdine is blogging for TMM in the run-up to his first studio album with a full band in 10 years. This time, Boo talks us through his encounters with famous people.
Chapman Family epic tour in offing
Virgins will be released on October 19 and the band will support the single with a massive six-week jaunt from the beginning of next month.
The Boy Who Trapped The Sun: Watermark EP
The Isle of Lewis has given birth to many a celebrated writer and musician – Ian Crichton Smith, Alasdair White, Alyth... and most recently Stornoway troubadour The Boy Who Trapped The Sun, aka Colin MacLeod.
Kid Harpoon: Once
There's real talent here, but there's not enough good material to fill a whole album.
Introducing: Charlie Winston
"It seems we all spend the first part of our lives coming together and then we spend the second half of our life taking it apart again; relearning how to do things and stop making all the same stupid mistakes."
Boo blog: Autumn #1
Boo's back! In the first of his new series of exclusive blogs he reveals all about his upcoming album (his first with a full band in 10 years) and upcoming tour, as well as the model who appears on his album cover.
Lily Allen to quit music?
In news that will please anyone forced to listen to Radio One all day, the pop princess says that she has "no plans to make another album" when her contract with EMI comes to an end.
