A favourite with Goldflakepaint who has signed to Jagjaguwar (Bon Iver, Sharon Van Etten), when we first heard Briana Marela we were left with goosebumps by her gorgeous, glacial voice. A Washington native, she headed over to Iceland to record debut album ‘All Around Us’ with Sigur Rós producer Alex Somers. With strings arranged by…
After ‘Are We There’ was named in many critics’ top albums of 2014, Sharon Van Etten has started the new year by unveiling a song called ‘I Don’t Want to Let You Down’. Premiered on Ellen Degeneres’ show in the States, the track could be a companion piece to any of those beautiful tales of…
It’s always hard to decide on what the ‘best’ albums of the year were… There could be some that you’d been eagerly awaiting and loved upon release and scarcely went back to thereafter, or even the opposite – the more you listened, the more it grew – as well as records that captured a particular…
Spectral Nights - alternative music, indie music, music reviews, new music, music blog 