Blog: one lonely horn

Placing a prominent sticker on the front of your new release that lists the bands that have influenced the recording does you no favours at all. It practically invites the listener to spend their time spotting the references rather than actually listening to the music. A particular shame in the case of Antiqcool for Songs Of Hope And Despair is anything but a lazy re-tread of already familiar sounds. The driving force behind Antiqcool is singer, song writer and guitarist Pete Smith - further details are hard to come by - but, as the album [...]

• ANTIQCOOL - I can see where you're coming from