The Great Escape is shaping up to be as ever, a bloody exciting Festival this year, and I will admit to being a tad biased as it solidifies itself in my books as 'Festival of the year'. For those who have yet to discover the wonders of The Great Escape, the festival runs in the delightful Sussex coast town of Brighton, from Thursday 10th May to Sunday 13th and I'm not going to even hide it behind a shade of cool, it is fantastic and always marks the start of the festival season for me. The bookers of TGE always [...]
Singer/songwriter Louisa Rose Allen's recently had a second wind, as Foxes , when Neon Gold, always with the finger on the pulse of eclectic Pop, snapped her up for the release of her new single 'Youth'. released earlier this month. Appropriately for Neon Gold, the single exists in the nexus between Ellie and Marina. Take Marina's quirkiness and Ellie's percussion led bombast and wrap them up with impassioned vocals and a sense of accessibility and it should see Foxes make quite a mark in 2012. You know Neon Gold has an eye for these things. The internet [...]
This time of year is a great time to catch up on those artists that we've never quite found the time to cover. We can make some headway into the thousands of unread emails and it's a good time to return to The Recommender's (in-)famous 'queue'. It's a lengthy list that never fully empties, currently now standing at over 30 artists. This uncertain limbo is a kind of demilitarized zone that we've created so we can store and log all those artists the second we uncover them, so they're never forgotten, whilst maintaining the full intention of returning to them [...]
Loui Rose Allen, properly known as Foxes , is the latest talent to spring from Neon Gold Records . The 22 year-old can easily be compared to leftfield pop wonders that have come before, but today comparison is all too common, and Foxes sets herself far apart from anyone in the pack with writing that pulls on the heartstrings, powerful vocals, and explosively dynamic and soaring pop production.
Woo, it's the November O!IW line-up! This month we have an exceptional line-up we think you'll agree. Oh, and once again it's FREEEEEEEEE! Check it... - Yadi - Yadi is not like other pop musicians. Poised, petite and powerful, Yadi knows exactly what she wants when it comes to her music, creating forward-thinking, instantly catchy documents of her life experiences so far. At just 23, she is a beautiful bundle of contradictions, the product of a genetic [...]
'Oh great, another female singer-songwriter.' These were my thoughts upon arriving on London singer Foxes ' Facebook page. But how wrong I was... Yes there are pianos and sweet vocals here, but forget the candle-flickering folkish delicacy and mind-numbing repetition that colours most of this territory: instead there are doomy couplets, maudlin poptronics and a spacious, worldly tone to surprise you. It all adds up to an arresting mix, full of punch and urgency. Sometimes it's so great to be surprised. Youth by iamfoxes Home [...]
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