- Hannah Spencer
Profile
A passionate, Creative Arts (Music & Art) graduate with a severe addiction to music pretty much sums me up. I'm incredibly open-minded when it comes to music; my collection spans from Herbie Hancock to Radiohead through Jack Johnson, Pet Shop Boys, System of a Down, Sigur Ros, and everything in-between! I'm an unashamed fan of epic, stadium-filling choruses, but also love nothing more than watching an intelligent indie band with intricately woven parts (think Is I Cinema) do their thing in a dingy 100 capacity venue. Ditto (pre-ban) smoky jazz clubs vs. large venue cheesy pop gigs; I've done and do the lot; I love it!
Reviews:
Neil Cowley Trio - The Face of Mount Molehill Album Review- With ‘Lament’ there’s a delicate piano opening to The Face of Mount Molehill with its’ gentle floating melodies and subtle cello backings. A composition constructed from repeated p...
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Get the Blessing - OCDC Album Review- Title track ‘OCDC’ opens Get The Blessing’s third album with blurred boundaries of where jazz and rock meet with the fuzz and gruffness of a Radiohead-like bass-line and drive thro...
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Starfucker - Jupiter Album Review- Starfucker initially released this offering back in 2009, at which point it quickly went out of print so, following the success of their album ‘Reptilians’ which was released earli...
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Erasure - Tomorrow's World Album Review- With polyphonic synths and a pounding beat, ‘Be With You’, the opening track to their 14th album, is instantly electronic and characteristically Erasure but somehow sounds more of ...
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Darren Hayes - Secret Codes & Battleships Album Review- As part of Australian pop duo Savage Garden, Darren Hayes achieved reasonable chart success during the mid to late nineties before his solo project became his priority and remains ...
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The Great Divide - Terra Firma Album Review- The Great Divide is essentially singer-songwriter Gerald Clark’s baby; he and a variety of musicians combine to present this eclectic offering... it’s different if nothing else. Fo...
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Darren Hayes - Black Out The Sun Single Review- ‘Black Out The Sun’, the new single from the voice of Aussie pop duo Savage Garden, is a superbly catchy, well-produced string-laden pop track. With its’ soaring melody, the track ...
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The Bottletop Band - Dream Service Album Review- Super-group style band formations are always intriguing and The Bottletop Band is no exception. Combining both British and Brazilian musicians and a fusion of genres, amongst a hos...
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Army Of The Universe - Mother Ignorance Album Review- There’s an immediate foreboding feel through the growling synths, distorted guitars and pounding drums of Army Of The Universe’s latest album’s title track, something that’s furthe...
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Beatsteaks - Boombox Album Review- Opening track ‘Fix It’ announces an immediate swagger to Beatsteaks’ sound, akin to an anxious, edgy, punk-tinged Kasabian, Oasis or The Pigeon Detectives, with their scratchy guit...
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Faded Circus - Faded Circus Album Review- Faded Circus is something of a one man band that is all the work of singer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Jones who writes pensive songs in a guitar-based, singer-songwriter folk b...
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- Saint Saviour @ O2 Academy [1, 2 and 3] - 27/04/2011 - Live Review
- A dynamic and entrancing performance from a stunning lady with a stunning voice, Saint Saviour and band provided a disappointingly small but eager and adoring Birmingham crowd with...
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Bell X1 - Bloodless Coup Album Review- Blimey, ‘Bloodless Coup’ is a bit of a gear change from what Bell X1 have dabbled in before. With electric beats, squelches and strong underpinning bass a la Radiohead, ‘Hey Anna L...
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Toy Horses - Toy Horses Album Review- Toy Horses are Welsh multi-instrumentalist duo Adam D Franklin and Tom Williams whose internet promotion won them the attention of ex-Wilco member Ken Coomer with whom they jetted ...
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Starfucker - Reptilians Album Review- ‘Born’, the opening track to this Portland, Oregon-based, dance-infused synth-pop collective’s album, starts with a strummed guitar introduction accompanied by beats that immediate...
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Silhouettes - Paint Me As You See Me EP Review- Propelled further into the public domain by airplay on Kerrang! Radio, ‘Paint Me As You See Me’, the title track from Silhouettes current EP, rightly entices further listening to S...
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Exit 451 - The Sea Above The Sky Album Review- With the bass drum pound of ‘In My Place’ and the piano chords of ‘Trouble’, Coldplay are undoubtedly the first band to spring to mind during the opening of ‘The Sea Above The Sky’...
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Staffordshire Performing Arts: Handel’s Messiah @ Lichfield Cathedral - 26/03/2011 - Live Review- Attending a performance of a baroque choral work in a Cathedral may not, to many, sound like a very rock and roll way to spend a Saturday evening, but, despite admittedly stuffy et...
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Micachu And The Shapes,London Sinfonietta - Chopped & Screwed Album Review- Micachu & The Shapes explore a sonic land that’s indecisive between dream and nightmare. Throw in a seven-piece Sinfonietta, and the indecision or, more to the point, weirdness is ...
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Vessels - Helioscope Album Review- Helioscope, the second album from Leeds-based post-rock quartet Vessels, is a powerful work of art that never pauses for breath, just maintains superb, intelligently-constructed mo...
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Little Miss Higgins - Across The Plains Album Review- Across The Plains, the fourth release by Kansas-raised Jolene Higgins aka Little Miss Higgins, is an album which hosts a tight and inoffensive musical rewind to the jazz and blues ...
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The Sounds - Something To Die For Single Review- Presented with a single taken from the forthcoming fourth album from a band that have been together since 1999 and one would naturally be inclined to expect something pretty tight,...
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The Joy Formidable @ Thekla - 02/02/2011 - Live Review- Following an outstanding support set from angst-fuelled Stockton-On-Tees quartet, The Chapman Family, an increased air of anticipation buzzed through the full-capacity crowd aboard...
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Dive Dive - Potential Album Review- On this Dive Dive’s third full-length album, the Oxford based quartet have finally arrived at a more consistent offering, somewhere much closer to their Potential.‘Mr 10%’ opens th...
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The Great British Barbershop Boys - Christmas Time Album Review- Music probably gets no cheesier than at Christmas, and how do you make the cheesiest Christmas songs even cheesier? You give them to a barbershop quartet, of course! Even those who...
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