New music round-up featuring Everything Everything, Sl0tface, Quiet Lions, False Advertising and Samoans


Everything Everything – ‘A Fever Dream‘ (live) This video sees Everything Everything showcase the title track from their new album in all its glory.  It opens in uncharacteristically sparse and piano-led fashion, giving plenty of space for Jonathan Higgs’ falsetto to breathe. Within a minute, the glitchy Radiohead-esque elements to come in before the bass…

Spectral Nights’ Top 5 albums of 2015


It’s been another strong year in the world of music and it’s always hard to whittle your favourite albums down to five but it wouldn’t be this site without doing a ‘Top 5’, would it? We don’t know what the employees of Championship Vinyl would make of 2015’s output but we’re pretty certain they’d find…

Glastonbury 2013 – preview


After a long two years, the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts makes its return this week. The 42nd festival at Worthy Farm has already had organisers Michael and Emily Eavis claiming it will be one of the best yet and, as of Monday 24 June, there’s also very promising weather forecasts. Don’t forget to…

Everything Everything – Arc


When ‘Man Alive’ was released in 2010, Everything Everything’s all-encompassing sound hit all the right notes – from those with a passion for hip-hop to those who liked indie-pop and everyone in between, they quickly became one of the must-see bands of the year. The album was bursting with originality and eccentricity, with Jonathan Higgs’…

Albums to look forward to in early 2013


We’re a bit late with this preview of the albums coming up in the twelve months ahead, but we’ve been busy with going back to day jobs, getting stuck in Surrey traffic and leading Norwich City Football Club to a respectable mid-table position on Football Manager… Still, better late than never and there’s a ton…

Our Lost Infantry – Soundtrack of 2012


Our Lost Infantry have had a stunning year, topped off by the release of their debut album ‘The New Art History’, via Deep Elm Records in November. After their final celebratory show of the year at the Aldershot West End Centre on 14 December, the band are already making extensive plans for next year and…