Interview
The Joy Formidable: Hand-Shandy Pop
This interview with The Joy Formidable is going to require a bit of time traveling on the part of the reader…
29th September 2009, 6:07pm
Interview
This interview with The Joy Formidable is going to require a bit of time traveling on the part of the reader…
29th September 2009, 6:07pm
Feature
They aim to play niche records to a wider market, capturing out of print releases for online compilations and streamed shows.
25th September 2009, 4:00pm
Feature
23rd September 2009, 1:55pm
Feature
The Green Man Festival near Crickhowell, Wales is the ultimate free-range experience.
22nd September 2009, 5:36pm
Tales as damning as they are beautifully arranged.
21st September 2009, 5:20pm
Feature
We got Gossip together to talk about how things have changed since their days on Kill Rock Stars.
21st September 2009, 2:26pm
Feature
Packed with just crisp choruses and sweetly decorated lyrics.
25th March 2009, 6:05pm
Live Review
Zac Pennington postures, gestures and pours effort into every warbling note.
26th November 2008, 9:45pm
It’s the hurtling of traffic, the bustling subways, the back and the forth of feet on the city’s blocks.
10th November 2008, 3:27pm
Going for poignancy but with none of the passion.
10th November 2008, 3:19pm
It rollicks, rolls and generally sounds as fine as a purely pop mess can.
3rd November 2008, 8:14pm
Joyful tweaks compliment a bright choral line.
30th October 2008, 6:47pm
It is nauseous, a little bit panicked and a whole lot of desperate.
27th October 2008, 3:30pm
It’s still head and (shaking) shoulders above any ‘world music’ set but yep, missing too many of those party-tricks that really make it something more than a holiday fling.
23rd October 2008, 4:30pm
Juvenile yet still a thrusting success.
22nd October 2008, 4:56pm
The Acorn have an over familiar warmth about them, ticking all the boxes that Bella Union does so well.
15th October 2008, 8:21pm
Think Decemberists in New York, embroiled in a Hollyoaks plotline.
15th October 2008, 4:45pm
It may really refer to hunting but to us, ‘Skeletal Lamping’ still sounds like some horrid new sex craze.
19th September 2008, 5:16pm
If The Organ now reside sedately in Splitsville, it’s a place where EP ‘Thieves’ slides constantly through your speakers and ‘Let The Bells Ring’s off kilter guitar lines and scaling piano keys are the disco hit of the night.
19th August 2008, 7:41pm
Somewhere along the line Mystery Jets swapped pots and pans for keytars.
18th August 2008, 2:21pm
Whimsical, popping, quirky, and usage of the descriptive ‘bad ass’.
12th August 2008, 9:38pm
Machine + guitar + emotion = ace.
12th August 2008, 8:54pm
It’s hard not to be entranced.
12th August 2008, 7:51pm
The build up staggers rather than glides silkily while the chorus’s guitar line sounds like it should precursor a midday soap about vets. Really boring vets.
27th July 2008, 3:53pm
With Bob Vylan, St Vincent, girl in red, Lizzy McAlpine and more.