Bombay Bicycle Club - Shuffle (Single review for Buzz)

Words originally published in Cardiff magazine Buzz, and can be found in their August issue.

Bombay Bicycle Club **
Shuffle (Universal)

From teenage ‘indie’ to slightly more grown-up acoustic folk, it seems Bombay Bicycle Club’s next step – third album A Different Kind Of Fix – will be into the kooky and the avant-garde. Well, that’s what they seem to want us to think, at least. Zane Lowe might be convinced, but we’re not. JM

Tribes - We Were Children (EP review for DIY)

Words reviewing Tribes EP for DIY.

Steve Mason - (Single review for Buzz magazine

Words originally for Cardiff's Buzz magazine and can be found in the May edition of the print magazine.

STEVE MASON ***
All Come Down (Double Six)
The ex-Beta Band man returns on his lonesome, swapping his band's psychedelic sound for a, well, slightly different psychedelic sound taken from his 2010 LP. Think kind of ambient, electro, folk-y psychedelic. Okay, so not that different to The Beta Band, and perhaps not quite as good. All Come Down is perfectly pleasant, though, if a little cheesy.

Fenech Soler - Demons (Single review for Buzz magazine)

Words originally for Buzz magazine, and will be published in the February edition.

***

More dance-y electro-pop fun from this dance-y electro-pop fun four-piece, taken from their self-titled debut released in twenny-ten. Nothing overly atrocious or offensive, though it’s the sort of big-chorused, self-adoring ‘anthem’ that Radio 1 excruciatingly force-feed you like the ducks that you are. This single comes loaded with even dancier remixes, for those of that persuasion. JM