Author: Gareth Reading Indie Life

  • CMAT, Linkin Park, a debut from The Molotovs and much more.

    Single Reviews 29/03/2025
  • Seven years after the last album and four years after Winston Marshall departed under a cloud, Marcus Mumford has put the rest of the ‘Sons’ back together.

    Mumford and Sons: Rushmere
  • Chrystia Cabal shifts gears into more guitar orientated territory on her fifth album.

    SPELLING: Portrait of My Heart
  • Has it really been 25 years since The Hour of Bewilderbeast was launched?

    Badly Drawn Boy 02 Oxford March 15th
  • The Southend-On-Sea Goth rockers return with their 6th album. A series of very good singles proceeding this caught the ear in a way their last couple of albums did not.

    The Horrors: Night Life
  • Another week stacked with talent and tunes.

    Single Reviews 22/03/2025
  • Quietly positioning themselves into the mainstream consciousness over the last few years this hardworking band are primed to blow up.

    The Lottery Winners: Koko – Rising Stars of Indie-Pop
  • Out on March 21st synth-pop-indie excellence awaits.

    Desire: Games People Play
  • The incredible new album from Benefits out March 21st. Benefits first album ‘Nails’ was immense, but the musical equivalent of watching a Gasper Noé film. You get it is fantastic art, but it is so utterly relentless you can barely…

    Exploring Benefits’ Evolution in ‘Constant Noise’
  • Sooooo many good tracks this week. All on the playlist, no time to discuss them all here. Single of the Week: Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke – This Conversation Hard choices for single of the week but this collab between…

    Single Reviews 15/03/2025