
Album review: Belle and Sebastian
One of the must-see acts at Laneway, B&S from Scotland have over two decades quietly built a large fanbase for their gorgeously melodic, cleverly literate and often wry pop-rock.
One of the must-see acts at Laneway, B&S from Scotland have over two decades quietly built a large fanbase for their gorgeously melodic, cleverly literate and often wry pop-rock.
The limited edition of this album comes with a DVD doco about this New York garage band. It's entitled Pardon Us For Living But the Graveyard is Full and that's apt, as the Fleshtones have been around forever.
Continuing their exploration of folk-influenced rock and the ethos, if not the actual sound, of 60s psychedelic rock, the quartet come over reflective and quasi-cosmic on this third studio album.
The Queen of Scream, PJ Harvey, reconnects with her folk-blues roots on her eighth album, Let England Shake.