From out of the darkest place, following the sudden death of her husband, Corinne Bailey Rae is re-emerging with an extraordinarily intimate and impassioned album. Here she talks about grief and the redemptive power of music ... In the summer of 2007, Corinne Bailey Rae headlined the Jazz World stage at the Glastonbury festival. It was a fitting finale to a whirlwind 18 months spent promoting her eponymous debut album. Released in February 2006, it became one of the pop soundtracks of the
British Sea Power and Amiina, the Icelandic quartet who provide backing strings for Sigur Ros, are set to play live at the forthcoming Branchage Film Festival in Jersey later this year ...
It ended on a leafy stage. This much is certain. How we got to that dramatic denouement is lost in a blur of chaos and confusion. British Sea Power step out under a blood-red sky into a tree-ringed circus, its deciduous sentries guarding a steeply banked auditorium, pitched towards an Italianate villa which is more accustomed to putting on Romeo and Juliet than rock'n'roll bands ...
Cumbria's finest WWI uniform-loving twitchers tout their fourth album 'Man Of Aran', which was written as the soundtrack to a 1934 doc on the Aran Islands ...
Composed and recorded in London, Toronto, Prague and Abilene (Texas), with the involvement of a small host of worthy musos, most of whom have form with Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, British Sea Power and Patti Smith. Artwork by Aubrey Beardsley. It's prog, folks, the kind which aspires to bring the instrumentation of post-war electric rock to bear on the sensibilities of classical composition. Proper prog, then, with a formalist's sense of space and texture and no widdling. Enjoyable ...