Rating - 4/5 Instagram http://bit.ly/HCinsta Soundcloud http://bit.ly/HCSound Twitter http://bit.ly/HelloCTweet Facebook http://bit.ly/HCFace ‘Dream Harder’ is the debut LP from Manchester-based collective Hello Cosmos; here to deliver a message of unity and positivity with their music, it’s an album with a clear mission statement…”dream harder”, of course. Sonically there’s a wide band of influences, encompassing many styles;... Continue Reading →
Reviewed – Passion Flower – Picture Perfect
Rating 4.5/5 Passion Flower, hailing from Warrington UK, brings us nostalgic, but modernised sounds of early 2000s emo and pop punk. The artist gracefully brings attention to the effects of mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety, feelings of intense hopelessness, however contrastingly delivers the essence of love. ‘Picture Perfect’ is the first single from... Continue Reading →
Reviewed – Bethlehem Casuals – The Tragedy of Street Dog
Rating - 4/5 There won’t be many albums that tell the story of a dog that goes in search of where all the music of Manchester has disappeared to. This is one. Presumably the only one. Street Dog, the eponymous hero, goes off to find that Manchester’s music is being held in the Dirty Old... Continue Reading →
Reviewed – Morrisey – I am Not a Dog on a Chain
Rating - 3/5 Always divisive, yet unquestionably talented and progenitor of some of the most iconic music that helped to shape the contemporary British scene; Morrisey returns with his thirteenth solo effort ‘I Am Not on a Dog on a Chain’. Granted, this magical, musical heyday of which I speak was of course established by... Continue Reading →
Ian Curtis – Leader Of The New Order.
It is 1976. 4th of June. On Peter Street, in the Lesser Free Trade Hall, there’s a gig going on. It’s not exactly well attended, its roughly two thirds empty, but this one gig becomes so famous that the attendance figures rise and rise over the years of retelling. If you believed every soul that... Continue Reading →