Paléo Festival, 22-27 July 2025, Nyon, Switzerland
Nothing quite compares to the Paléo, as Sinead O’Conor famously sang, a festival of music, performance, art and food within spitting distance of Lake Geneva, the Jura and the beautiful vineyards that go with it. Someone has called it “the Glastonbury of Switzerland”, except it’s a little more relaxed… Six days of live music spread […]
L’Eclair Drifting With the Clouds
After a bit of a stylistic reshuffle, the Genevan groove merchants L’Eclair remerge with their fourth album via the Los Angeles-based record label, Innovative Leasure (Allah-Las, Badbadnotgood, Alex Maas, etc.). The expat Bulgarian co-founders, brothers Stef Lilov (guitar/keyboards) and Yavor Lilov (drums), appear to have taken over the running of the band from other members […]
Glooriously Sung by Amaya
Amaya Gloor – a new name signed to Universal, and here’s her debut EP, entitled “Unfinished”. “Unfinished”, when the singer/songwriter has barely set off on her career? Well, judging from the strength of this six-track song collection, it is absolutely certain we will hear plenty more from this 22-year-old from the Bernese mountains. Singing in […]
Junes Pondering the Joys of Love and Loss
Entitled “Of Love and Loss”, the latest EP – well, a mini-LP, really – from singer/songwriter Junes is available now, thanks to Young & Aspiring. Musically socialised by the likes of Bon Iver, James Blake, Ryan Beatty and Novo Amor, pianist Junes savours the experience of love and loss mostly in ballad tempo. “All the […]
Love & Rage With Lilac Attitude
How could you not love a band that has a song called “Childish Brains” in their repertoire! And here it is, right at the end of Lilac Attitude’s debut EP “Love & Rage”. It’s out now on A Tree in a Field Records. Raucously, tenderly and nostalgically post-punky, every one of Lilac Attitude’s songs is […]
Hope Through Mark Kelly & Peaceful Warriors
After several solo collections of easy-on-the-ear folk-pop, Mark Kelly returns with a full band, Peaceful Warriors, to continue on his quest to produce music as a force of peace and creative collaboration in all walks of life. Entitled “Hope”, it is released via the fabulously named Hairy People Records/Irascible. A lively town on the Northeastern […]
Fiona Daniel Returns With “transitions”
It’s been a long wait, but here it is: Fiona Daniel’s “transitions”, available now via Klangfelder Records/Irascible. It is her next musical step, at long last, in a career that was temporarily derailed after “Backyard,” the previous album released thirteen years ago. Fiona Daniel has always excelled at embedding her subtle and acute observations about […]
The Young Gods – Where Are They Now?
Teasingly entitled “Appear Disappear”, the extraordinary Young Gods have delivered another slab of mind-meltingly intense and beautiful electronica/industrial/metal. Already a sure-fire entry for the year-end “best of 2025” lists, “Appear Disappear” is out on Two Gentlemen. Forty years ago, the Young Gods exploded into the embryonic synth-rock scene with a truly revolutionary new sound that […]
Diving Into the “Wicked Girl Era” With Lateena and Bony Fly
Fresh from Geneva’s ever-innovative Bongo Joe Records comes “Wicked Girl Era”, sing-jay Lateena’s exuberant exploration of queer dancehall, Latin, and Afrobeat vibes alongside producer Bony Fly aka Mateo Echeverria. Fleeing the homophobic and dangerous environment of Jamaica to be granted the status of political refugee in 2019 in Zurich, Lateena Plummer has earned herself a […]
Naughty, Naughty Marius Bear…
A new EP from Marius Bear, “When We Get There We’ll Know 2.0”, continues where last year’s “When We Get There We’ll Know 1.0” left off. Produced once again by Joe Actill (Benjamin Amaru, Ilira, Heera and many more), the indomitable Bear serves up another selection of classy and eminently hummable pop songs for a […]
