Anita Lane: Sex O’Clock Album Review

Anita Lane Sex O’Clock (Mute) LP/CD/DL Released: December 10th, 2021 8/10 Lane’s final solo album re-released for 20th anniversary. The release of this 20th anniversary edition of Sex O’Clock was planned before the passing of Lane in March of this year, so Mute aren’t cashing in on her death. Though, from the eulogies paid to…

T.E. Yates: Strange Weather EP Review

T.E. Yates Strange Weather EP (Self Released) CD/DL/Streaming Released: November 12th, 2021 8/10 Diverse EP from moving centre stage sideman. You may not have heard of T.E. Yates but he’s been around a while now, albeit as almost a hidden figure, designing gig flyers and album covers for other bands, and, though he’s performed in…

The Otherness: LMIRL Album Review

The Otherness LMIRL (Motor Music Entertainment) DL/Streaming Released: October 1st, 2021 8/10 Patagonian rock/pop band release perfect debut album. Patagonia’s, and maybe South America’s, greatest band, The Otherness, release their long awaited debut album, LMIRL. It’s an acronym for Let’s Meet In The Real World, and espouses the bands desire to get back out on…

Dan Haywood: Country Dustbin Album Review

Dan Haywood Country Dustbin (Bandcamp) CD/DL/Streaming Released: October 1st, 2021 9/10 Acclaimed singer/songwriter releases album…with one song on it. Back in June of this year, Dan Haywood gave LTW an in depth interview and revealed that his next release would be Country Dustbin, a one song album. Albeit that one song will be 52 minutes,…

Tiger Empress: Anxious Blood Single Review

Tiger Empress   Anxious Blood (Bandcamp) DL/Streaming Released: September 24th, 2021 8/10 Tiger Empress unleash a new single to get the blood pumping. Cornish band Tiger Empress release their second single, following on from last year’s Imposter Syndrome, and it’s a stunning little number called Anxious Blood. Continuing with their laudable DIY as fuck attitude,…

Di Auger: Under The Skin Of The World Album Review

Di Auger Under The Skin Of The World (Bandcamp) CD/DL/Streaming Released: August 2nd, 2021 9/10 Powerful concept album from Canadian industrial goth. Toronto’s Di Auger have been a mainstay of that city’s music scene for many years now and C. Lafort, the artist behind Di Auger, has done much to enrich and develop the Toronto…

Synthetic Villains: Obstacle Navigation Album Review

Synthetic Villains Obstacle Navigation (Bandcamp) CD/DL/Streaming Released: August 2nd, 2021 7/10 Synth pop with rhythm for a year of blues. Synthetic Villains – the solo side project of Three Dimensional Tanx  member Richard Turner – release their follow up to 2020’s eponymous debut album which we reviewed here. Much has changed in the world since…

Dan Haywood: In-depth interview

Singer/songwriter Dan Haywood and discusses Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, punching out folkies, living with murderers, and refusing to compromise as an artist. For those people who don’t know you, how would you describe your music? It’s my music. The music is about not really happy about it being my music, but trying to make the…

Isolation release video for Marianna

Back in the early 80s hundreds, if not thousands, of bands were being formed up and down the country. The explosion of punk had splintered the music scene into myriad genres that, whilst there was much crossover, created a tribalism that often spun into violence. Many of those bands were around for a few years,…

Dan Haywood w/Josephine Foster: Glad That I Live Am I – EP Review

Dan Haywood w/Josephine Foster Glad That I Live Am I (Bandcamp) CD/DL/Vinyl Released: 24th May, 2021 8/10 Old hymn given the Haywood treatment with message for our time. Glad That I Live Am I was a hymn written way back in 1891, here re-interpreted by Dan Haywood as a folk song. Joined by eclectic singer/songwriter…