DiScover: Open Mouth
DiS chats to Open Mouth (aka Seymour Glass) about Miss Black America, politics and musical constipation ahead of the release of his debut album Import/Export...»
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This Town Needs Guns - And I'll Tell You For Why / Wanna Come Back To My Room And Listen To Some Belle & Sebastian?
For the uninitiated, This Town Needs Guns are an Oxford-based five-piece who have been described in their plaudits as one of the country’s most exciting prospects. This, their second single, is a double-A-side and download-only affair, and one that further reinstates their place as one of rock’s most-wanted...»
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
Scribble Mural Comic Journal isn’t your typical nine-out-of-ten album upon first listen. It’s a difficult listen in so much as the melodies are buried so deep within the fields of noise that it will take persistence to piece together all the hooks and motifs that underpin the record’s misty exterior...»
Open Mouth - Import/Export
I can’t put into words with any eloquence how excited I was when Import/Export slipping through my letterbox. For a year I’ve waited for it, ever since it was announced that Miss Black America would go their separate ways (for the time being, at least). So, how does the solo venture from Seymour Glass (Open Mouth) fare...»
The Bleeps, Ten City Nation, Bathwater at Bury St Edmunds The Priors, Sat 05 May
Ten City Nation are an intriguing prospect. To those in the audience for their live debut, they are something of a super-group, featuring members past and present of Miss Black America (Mike and Neil, Seymour) and the vocalist of popular local punk types The Heroics...»
Melt Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
Whether they’re toying with 'Hey Mickey'-style vocal parts or retesting the double-speed aural fuckery, Bambi’s Dilemma sends out a clear message that Melt Banana are worth a three-year wait...»
Half Cousin - Iodine
Half Cousin are the kind of band that you’d be happy to play to your parents. Charming, homemade percussion samples underline a quiet electronic collage of colourful melodies and manipulated sounds, while lead protagonist Kevin Cormack’s distinctive Orcadian-accent is used to smooth over the instrumentation’s rough edges...»
4 or 5 Magicians: conjuring up a single
So-hot-right-now Brighton quartet 4 or 5 Magicians are to release their debut single, 'Forever On The Edge', on the Alcopop! label this July...»
Redjetson - The Unravelling / Racing In The Mire
'The Unravelling' isn’t a bad song by any means, but Redjetson need to break out of routine before they trap themselves in the dark realms of vapid monotony...»
Dan Sartain - Thought It Over
‘Thought It Over’ isn’t his best moment, but it serves as a nice entrance point for the uninitiated...»
Loren Dent - Empires and Milk
Empires and Milk is a beautiful album, and a fantastic listening experience for fans of modern ambient and instrumental music. Just don’t fall asleep in the process...»
Fields - Everything Last Winter
On the back of 2006’s single ‘If You Fail We All Fail’, there was a lot of talk that Fields would follow it up with something equally as charming. Rather than acting upon self-fulfilling prophecy though, the band’s shortcomings become glaringly obvious over the course of this, their debut album...»
The Tupolev Ghost - Take Courage
The Tupolev Ghost are, collectively, a prodigious talent. Although some of the instrumental parts veer dangerously close to a kind of ‘emo was better back in my day’ regressive shtick, the three-piece don’t need to rely on the bands of yore to drive their music forward...»
Basquiat Strings - Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford
There’s a definite charm in the debut album from Ben Davis' Basquiat Strings group. The band brings together a somewhat idiosyncratic mix of jazz and classical, propelled by a string quintet and the rhythmic drive of jazz drummer Seb Rochford (Polar Bear, Acoustic Ladyland). It’s a project which, if left in the wrong hands, could sound horribly average...»
Arcade Fire and The Good The Bad & The Queen head up Latitude festival
Arcade Fire, Wilco, CSS and The Good The Bad And The Queen are among the acts confirmed for Latitude Festival this year...»
Maps at Norwich Arts Centre, Sun 18 Mar
Northampton-based five-piece Maps are an interesting find. Their music harks back to the heyday of shoegaze, concocted by dissonant guitar swirls, multi-layered synths and an interminable rhythm section...»
Seafood: travelling the country in May and June
Loveable indie-rockers Seafood are to tour the UK in the coming months...»
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid - Tongues
The reason Tongues works so well is not because the song lengths are significantly shorter, but because both Hebden and Reid interact on the same wave length...»
Deftones - Mein
Some bands that opt to keep within their own self-structured conventions for x number of years can see the quality of their output wane, out of step with changing trends in sound. Some, however, live on without a need to change...»
Open Mouth readies debut album
Open Mouth - the solo venture from Seymour Glass of Miss Black America - will be releasing his debut album in April.»
The Ripps - Loco
The Ripps are a band that could annoy me. If the media were to spread their legs for their passé brand of retro ‘70s punk, then I can imagine I’d start to hate them – y’know, in the same way that The Fratellis became the object of everyone else's meticulous hate last year. As it stands though, they aren’t going anywhere, and the only place I’ll be hearing them is on their promotional single sitting on my desk right now...»
Open Mouth, Dexy - Castle Keep/ Waiting For An Accident
This is a defiant proclamation that Open Mouth is no mere side-project, but the future for Seymour Glass. You’re welcome to come along for the ride...»
Euros Childs - Bore Da
Former Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci main man turned idiosyncratic solo artist Euros Childs has, for some time now, been somewhat of an undiscovered gem in pop’s boundless basket of acts...»
David Vandervelde - The Moonstation House Band
David Vandervelde – multi-instrumentalist and rock star extraordinaire – loves the music of yesteryear. He’d take T. Rex and Bowie over any modern music you might care to love...»
Richard Walters - Pilotlights EP
Richard Walters is a singer-songwriter based in Oxford. He plays acoustic guitar like most uniform songwriters, but where their subsequent output manages only to cater to the tastes of those excited by the melange of bland folk-rock, Walter deviates from the path...»
Andrew W.K. for ATP? Perhaps...
The creator of this website wants the rock-star extraordinaire to perform a set at ATP vs the Fans, held this year on May 18th - 20th at Butlins Minehead. Mike - Don't know whether this warrants a news article. You decide....»
Findlay Brown - Separated By The Sea
It may well be a little too early in the year to enjoy the album to its full extent, but if you have even a passing interest in folk music, give Separated By The Sea a fair listen. Findlay Brown is the future of British folk music...»
Pop Levi - The Return To Form Black Magick Party
The biggest problem with this debut lies in the execution: if Pop Levi’s intention was to create an ornate pop star persona, then he’s definitely succeeded. However, his songwriting skills leave a lot to be desired. You have to admire his scope, but the ideas come off as half-baked, and The Return To Form Black Magick Party is certainly not worth its asking price...»
Fiel Garvie - Caught Laughing
Norwich-based quintet Fiel Garvie have been pedalling acutely leftfield pop music for 11 years now – a feat which has spanned three albums and some significant international success.»
Lavender Diamond - The Cavalry Of Light
What really raises the bar for this EP is its instant accessibility. These songs slip under your skin, inveigle the mind, annoy you to the point that you have to listen to them if it’s the last thing you do. In a sense, it’s pop music...»