- Lu-Hai Liang
Profile
I come from a 60s music background with a love of all things bluesy. But now I listen to anything ranging from Bach to DJ Format, Pixie Lott to Miles Davis. I'm an aspiring writer - with bylines in The Guardian; The Brighton Argus and The Hastings Observer. I like music that has a good rhythm or an unusual melody and dislike anything that's imitative. I love travel, photography and swimming.
Reviews:
The Subways - We Don’t Need Money To Have A Good Time Single Review- The Subways have a cultish following, with loyal fans devoted to their wild stage antics and mosh-like rock. Their last outing, 2008’s ‘All Or Nothing’, failed to ignite interest w...
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Gillian Welch - The Harrow & the Harvest Album Review- As any artist whose style is to strip back and refine, Gillian Welch is rightly revered. Along with long-term musical partner David Rawlings, this duo has absorbed the roots of blu...
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Krissy Matthews - Hit the Rock Album Review- Blues, with feeling, is best played with age. Those original bluesmen are now all but gone, taking with them lessons hard won. One of the last, the venerable Pinetop Perkins died i...
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Andy Mason - rural Sun Album Review- This San Franciscan singer-songwriter is styled in the mould of country slingers Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash, pared back by folk roots, in this diverting if low-key album. Andy...
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The Wombats - Anti-D Single Review- Anti-D is an engaging song of a sunny disposition despite it being about frontman Matthew Murphy’s addiction to anti-depressants. Liverpool’s The Wombats are usual purveyors of jau...
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Toy Horses - Interrupt Single Review- Toy Horses are a Welsh two-piece who write quiet, considerate, piano-led pop. They sound like a pale version of The Feeling, a band already pretty beige. Interrupt starts with stri...
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Avril Lavigne - What The Hell Single Review- Ready for more catchy pop, spiked with attitude and sung by a cute sprite with a French name? Avril Lavigne returns after two years in the studio spent making her fourth album, ‘...
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- Lotte Mullan - Would You Be So Kind Single Review
- Lotte Mullan started out trying to sing like Tom Waits, whose cough-like voice gave her a throat problem and a re-think. Now she sings with a sweet rasp, sounding like a folky Rume...
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- Josh Bray - Whisky and Wool Album Review
- Listening to this album, the influence of Bray’s idol is very apparent. It’s pleasing to hear the ghost of Nick Drake in this gentle and elegiac record, and in some moments there’s...
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Jamie Woon,Ghostpoet @ The Brook - 21/02/2011 - Live Review- Jamie Woon: dance, dub, electronic, earnest, soulful, 28, tall, dark-haired and fresh-faced, Burial-remixed, Londoner, Brit school graduate, 4th placed in BBC’s Sound of 2011 poll,...
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Small Morris - Feelin’ Me Single Review- Small Morris grew up in the ‘run-down’ county of Hereford , but wait, he did earn his ‘G’ cred in the gangland streets of Zimbabwe.Born in Harare in 1987, Small started spitting at...
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Dutch Uncles - Face In Single Review- Dutch Uncles have a sound that’s difficult to pin down. The Manchester band have vocals like the dry, high voice of Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip; use keyboards like The Cure, and have...
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Sweet Jane - Close Your Eyes Single Review- Sweet Jane are an Irish rock band who specialise in overdriven guitars and melodious vocals. With their image, dressed in leather and black, they look like an emo/goth group trying...
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The Lucky Strikes - Gabriel, Forgive My 22 Sins Album Review- Mumford & Sons’ rollicking folk, replete with banjo breakdowns, saw an English breakthrough in the resurgence in rustic roots music, along with Americans Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver. ...
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Cee-Lo Green - It's OK Single Review- With the chocolate vocals, creamy production and caramel lyrics, Cee-Lo Green’s music is pure pop confection, proving classical soul still has a place among its younger, feistier R...
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Jason Derülo - The Sky’s The Limit Single Review- Perhaps it’s testament to the brevity of clubbers memories that Jason Derülo likes to helpfully introduce himself on his songs. The umlaut R&B star, who pronounces ‘shawtie’ like t...
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Eric Clapton - Hard Time Blues Single Review- This elegiac and dusty country-blues, with a perfect slide solo, is a groove that will resonant in these hard times. Taken from current album, ‘Clapton’.The song was penned by Lane...
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The Killers - Boots Single Review- The Killers continue their tradition of releasing a Christmas single with an atmospheric (atmospheric, The Killers? Surely not…) and most ambitious yuletide song yet.‘Boots’ opens ...
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Larkin Poe - Summer Album Review- Larkin Poe are two young, attractive sisters who sing about love and lorn – but are they a creation of genuine country? Includes a cover of Massive Attack’s Teardrop.Rebecca and Me...
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Josh Bray - Whisky & Wool EP Review- Josh Bray might not yet rival the song-writing ability of his hero Nick Drake, but with a voice as sublime as his, he’s going to generate a loyal following.Whisky & Wool, his debut...
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Claude Hay - Deep Fried Satisfied Album Review- Australian Claude Hay seems to have invented a new genre: junk-food blues, using samples and loops to create funky boogies about his love for American fried food.Hay takes a DIY-ap...
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- The Phoenix Foundation - Pot Single Review
- In the grey and dark days of November, perhaps a slice of jangly, surf-pop is just what us northerners need from New Zealand band The Phoenix Foundation.‘Pot’ is their debut UK sin...
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