Here at Echoes and Dust, we’re big fans of inventiveness in music. We also like Maps and Atlases quite a bit. So, when we were offered the chance to interview them ahead of the release of their rather special second album (or ‘sophomore album’ as they …

Every now and again a band comes along that are so distinctive, so far outside the monotonous paradigm of modern musical ubiquity that you just have to sit up and take notice; Cold In Berlin are such a band. Ahead of the release of their new album ‘… …

Apologies, I Have None seem like a band I’ve known forever, but in fact only came to my attention last month as the group sexy enough to get Sam Russo in his pants for their beautiful new video (https://youtu.be/yGY1m-pnHtM ). Turns out some of their o …

Spring sunshine, the smell of fresh cut grass, sitting drinking cider in pub gardens, waves gently lapping on the the beach; all of these things are what tatterattels sound like. We were so beguiled by their self-titled EP that came out last month that …

Kellar love to experiment with sounds, and to share the results of those experiments. Having made plenty of loud guitar- and drum-based noise on debut “Beloved Dean of Magic”, Kellar return with a shift in sound on “Smokescreen” that is altogether more …

Saturday Sun’s debut Seagull EP is the perfect soundtrack for these bright spring days, blissfully blending folk with elements of post rock. Ahead of the EP’s release we tried to find out a bit more about the band. (((o))): How long has the band been t …

When Aidan Moffat and James Graham of Twilight Sad are singing a fellow musician’s praises it behoves you to take note and listen, so when RM Hubbert was repeatedly mentioned by both I did just that. And I’m mighty glad I did, because ‘Thirteen Lost an …

Well, this takes me back. That’s not to say that A Fight You Can’t Win sound like The Victims, Zippy and the Coneheads or The Trilobites, except the songs are short, sharp and you have no choice but to bounce around. It’s about how this makes you feel. …

I am sort of late to the party that is ‘On VHS’ by The Fierce And The Dead, or at least late in writing about this instrumental gem. I have been unable to write about music recently, even when the music is as good as what TFATD are making. I will write …

It is often said that it takes a thief to catch a thief so we applied that logic to musicians and sent Nick from Manchester’s Trojan Horse to talk to David from Sunderland’s Field Music, the results were most enlightening. They always say never meet yo …

I have one major issue with this album. It has nothing to do with it not being good; it is very good, and in fact, it is flat-out sublime. The major issue I have with this album is that its creators have made my ‘job’ difficult. As a reviewer, I’m obli …

Sometimes, usually when you least expect it, a thing of such rare beauty that it takes your breath away and cradles you in a warmth of belonging and joy happens to land in your lap. Whilst it is maybe a bit far-fetched to think of music doing this in a …

This record was a real sleeper for me, with its mostly gentle flowing indie- and post-rock tunes of between around four and five minutes taking a while to get into. This was in part due to the slow pace and lack of direction of a couple of the tracks a …

We’ve been big fans of Team Horse, aka Belfast’s Greg Topley, since his debut EP ‘Here Come The Hurricane’ landed unheralded on our doormat back in the spring of 2010. He followed that up with the album ‘Children Of The Winter’ last year and now the in …

Sometimes, it matters not whether it’s been done before, just that it can be done again and done better. Indie-rock bands are ten-a-penny these days: some an unfortunate by-product of the ‘landfill indie’ movement that heralded the supposed ‘death of g …

The Twilight Sad have been touring their new album, ‘No One Can Ever Know’, in the States for the last month or so culminating in a stint at SXSW. Our man in the US, Jake Gillen, caught up with them as they passed through and popped a few questions to …

It is somewhat difficult sometimes to remain subjective about an album when the music that is held within just leaves you cold and you end up waiting for it to end. Tanlines’ ‘Mixed Emotions’ is one such album which, although you can see what the band …

Ashley West-Mullen is something of a musical Jekyll & Hyde. By night he is a beast of a drummer, the powerhouse that drives the incredible math rock of Alright The Captain. By day however, Ash’s more introspective side comes out in the form of Mender. …

Andrew Bird’s latest album ‘Break It Yourself’ sees the Chicago multi-instrumentalist return after his soundtrack for the film ‘Norman’. As usual, the Suzuki-trained Bird performs his usual array of sounds from afropop to indie; and blues to folk by wa …

Perhaps it was years of listening to classical music in my youth, following it note for note on the score, that I enjoy both the subtle and vast differences between instrumental rock bands. Yes of course there are similarities in post-rock, just as the …

‘Ways To Forget’, the debut album from Clock Opera, has been so hotly anticipated for so long that when it was finally announced, almost every single Echoes and Dust writer wanted to review it. However, there are perks to dating the editor and so the p …