'Brimful of character, Silje Nes' 'Ame’s Room' drifts from upbeat dream pop to more introspective and abstract numbers, recalling the homespun beauty of The Pastels and Pram.' - Stool Pigeon
'Similarities to the lo fi recordings of CocoRosie and the beautiful, textured atmospherics of Colleen are clear, but Nes’s distinctive vocals and intuitive methods of composition are spiked with her own character.' - The Wire
'Songs such as Drown, built around a basic guitar arpeggio, the sleepy, pretty Dizzy Street and the unexpectedly limber Giant Disguise are like half-dreamt Polly Harvey demos. Her refreshingly unconcerned style is the ideal antidote to the current fashion for setting diaries to music.' - Times Online
Fresh from recording her new album, 'Good Morning Diner', the follow-up to 'Gypsies And Red Chairs', Emma performs brand new material as well as the occasional classic re-arranged. A delicate, seductive blend of English and American roots, inspired by the people and places that touched her soul on her extraordinary journey.
'A genuine folk singer with a sensibility that flies us arrow-straight to the 60's streets of Greenwich Village or Soho.' - Joey Webb - Bucketfull Of Brains
'Pure seductive voice' - Time Out London
In Natty's own words - 'I started out my musical journey as a tiny yout playin my elders records, continued it when I left school(after goin throu a few phases), blagged my way into studios sayin I was an engineer when all I wanted was to use the studio for free. Did that... made beats, wrote tunes an learned a few lessons in life an music on the way. Quit the studio life in search of a dream... so here I am. Just tryin a ting... watch out for de long shot ;-)'.
Sixtoes excel in 'Scruffy, sinister folk rock. Something like Antony and the Johnsons singing the scariest words of Aleister Crowley. In hell.' - NME
Music for outlaws, cowboys and glamour girls who won't give up on their idea of perfect love, Madam is the music project of singer/songwriter Sukie Smith.
'Fragile voiced chanteuse' - Time Out
'With its sultry vocals, lounge guitar, and spiralling melodica this is a mesmerising example of music that doesn't so much hold your attention as hypnotise you.' - Lobster Quadrille
The Chinamen first met working in a live music venue. Rather than to “start a band” the idea was to create a loose recording project without set roles, or a set style of music, and where vocal and lead parts could be interchanged constantly and freely. The band continues to meet regularly about once every three months to engage in two weeks or so of intense creativity. Because all songs are written, performed and recorded simultaneously the usual problems of long–term musical collaborations are avoided – so the ideas stay fresh and different each time.
'There is no surprise that Denis Jones keeps being invited back to play wherever he goes...he's quite simply one of the most exciting, engaging, inventive and purely entertaining performers you will see this year or next.' - Humble Soul
'Denis' charming voice lends this release the feeling of a stripped-down male version of a CocoRosie record, if CocoRosie weren't so disappointingly pretentious.' - Warprecords
Ed Laurie is 'a singer-songwriter with a similar emotional warmth as such legendary troubadours as Leonard Cohen... A sweet offering if ever we've heard one!' - The Stool Pigeon
'A modern classic. Outstanding.' - Play Louder
Originally from Sweden but now residing in Brighton, Fanni Risberg started off at drama school in Stockholm when she was 18. Since becoming a household name in Sweden for her acting, she met two music producers in Brighton, Alan Scott and Mark Flannary, who helped her get the first demos recorded in the summer of 2006.
Since then she has been collaborating with a number of co-writers and will start recordings for her first album project in the spring of 2008.
'Nevada City-based songwriter Mariee Sioux spits piney rhymes over oaken-tuned acoustic plucking. Her twilight narratives detail encounters with ghosts, myriad woodland creatures, and her mom. But with a voice that bends around the branches with more flexibility than her fellow folk-nymphs, you couldn't pick a better guide for your night-hike.' - Jennifer Maerz, SF Weekly
'Mariee Sioux was a delight, an amazingly poetic and telling lyricist, and she seemed to be the den mother of the pack, delicately plucking and strumming an acoustic with her eyes closed.' - LA Record
Freakflag produce Celtic-tinged pastoral blues-folk.
The Slow Life are four Londoners dedicated to distilling maximum beauty from Drums, Guitars, Voice and the occasional laptop flourish. Influenced by and taking references from the likes of Talk Talk, Low, Rufus Wainwright and even Swans, TSL are building their sound slowly and carefully, as only they know how. Darren Bancroft’s wonderful, plaintive voice pins down the music, occasionally breaking free to drift away, but without the false charm and bathos of many post-Buckley singer types.
Dan Baker and Crawford Blair build a lexicon of beautiful near-silences, scorched earth string samples, unearthly drones/howls and suspended, reverberating guitar. Ben Jones takes the slo-core imprint of his last band Fourth Quartet and decorates the songs with his drifting, trademark beats.
Men Diamler is soon to release a pair of new albums. The first, "Sea Shanties For The Far Inland", is set to be released on the sweet little Bristol label "Dulcet Thud". The second "Lon Chaney Vs. Dandelion Batman", will be self released and sold at gigs.
Freddie Keen is a joy to behold on stage. With a sound that is as original as it is brilliant, he performs a master-class in combing technical ability with melodic songwriting.
