Julia Mosley is Staffordshire’s own Queen of Darkness, and her fourth studio album Ballad of a Murderess offers a voyage into the depths of gothic storytelling sorcery and emotional reflection. Consisting of 14 intricately woven tracks, the album immerses listeners…
The Dread Kaili, a musical project born in the first pandemic lockdown, has released their debut album, suceeding debut EP I and follow up II, the latest record is titled (you guessed it) III. Over the last 20 or so…
Midlands-based folk duo Bluebyrd, like many artists, spent the pandemic putting pen to paper and in doing so, curated their third album Song and Dance, released on May 29. “It’s not a lockdown album, far from it,” explains Chris Rowley…
Nearly two decades after their top five charting album The State of Things, Reverend and the Makers are set to release their seventh studio album, and it serves as proof that the band are one of the enduring and great…
To say that Megan Dixon Hood is the greatest of her craft would be futile, since she’s the only one who does it. In fact, the singer and performer has managed to carve her own genre of music, coined ‘ethereal…
Guest review by The Underground venue manager Lee Barber The frequency crackles and flickers, an acoustic guitar weaves in an out, a soft melody plays. Whispers through the darkness and an eerie echo of chorus fizzle and fade as a…
It’s six years since Oli Ng won Best EP at the Music Awards of Staffordshire and Cheshire with Into The Dark – and now, his debut album Everything Is Impossible Until It Happens reflects upon his 10-year career so far,…
Patio Gas are a band that come with a musical manifesto dedicated to ‘The Three Es’ – ‘eclecticism, experimentation and electronica’. Unlike some political parties, this Stoke-based trio come good on their deliverables too, with their debut album – Digging…
For emerging artists, one of the biggest, most fulfilling achievements has to be turning over a tangible copy of your work in your hands, slipping the ridged plastic from the sleeve, and dropping the needle onto a debut album for…
