Unsigned Band Reviews

• Kinzli: 'Going Just To Be Going'

  This is an interesting self-released album that will doubtless garner some major label attention for Kinzli. Whilst being noticeably easy on the ear, this is an intriguing record, mixing in influences as diverse as country twang and jazzy horns, not too mention a song sang in Spanish!

   
• Silent Film Project: 'Two Days'

  Silent Film Project are a Sheffield five-piece, with an irrepressibly cheerful note that runs against the grain of UK guitar rock. The momentum of this song exists entirely in its fringes, painted out by the excellent guitar flourishes of Tom Dakin, and anticipates the movement toward fragile sunny pop recently pushed by Vampire Weekend.

   
• Looptron: 'Obsolete Before You Start'

  In spite of a dubious name, Looptron’s muted electronica is understated and compact. This is the work of London based Neil Sharkey and his laptop, recorded throughout the winter of 2007 and put out at the beginning of this year.

   
• Everyone To The Anderson: 'Everyone To The Anderson'

  This Brighton three-piece offer an intriguing blend of post-hardcore guitar/ vocals with some math-rock rhythms that instantly propels them into the upper echelons of the already noteworthy Brighton scene.

   
• Stealing Green: 'Stealing Green 1' EP

  Stealing Green, an unsigned five piece from Hammersmith, profess to a shared love of rock music’s scragglier heritage; Aerosmith, AC/DC and Free are all sonically name checked in an EP that is entirely unabashed about its distance from the ‘cool’ centre that guitar music has recently gravitated toward.

   
• Twenty One Crows: 'Whatever Will Become Of Us' EP

  Twenty One Crows’ debut EP comes packaged in a beautiful, hand pressed, limited edition sleeve, which very nearly makes the record worth purchasing on its own. The group’s bewitching, wintry songs present us with a very different view on Brighton’s music scene, one at a remove from the indie mischief of Clearlake or the hard rock, er, mischief of My Device.

   
• Built By Snow: 'Noise'

  ‘Noise‘, Built By Snow’s debut effort, is a sprightly and sparky power-pop number - seven tracks laden with hooks, catchy choruses, three-part harmonies and decidedly retro keyboard effects.

   
• Afterspark: 'Sometimes We Forget'

  This Sussex two-piece, made up of Cate Ferris and Adam Staff, have slowly being accruing local acclaim performing as Ferris since early 2006. 'Sometimes We Forget' is the pair’s debut album, self funded, recorded and produced.

   
• Eight Man Down: 'City Limits' / 'Gabriel'

  Unsigned band Eight Man Down purvey a classic rock sound that threads together its components well, despite production that leaves a great deal to be desired. 'City Limits' is a deceptively simple song, with more than a little of Bowie’s 'Man Who Sold The World' about it.

   
• Kiyomori: 'Uprising'

  Lyrical goth-rock is a quantity in short supply. Kiyomori provide a loveable take on The Cure, with jolly indie lyrics. It doesn’t sound like it should work, but it does.

   

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