Nick Aslam

Nick Aslam- The fine fettered folkish troubadour you say, and a great songwriter he is too.the Celtic lilt is still very much in place but recently Nick has been working with producer and Killing Joke/The Orb force of cosmic nature Youth so there's a new sound less folk/country/indie as Nick puts it he has decided to 'wear the gritty bones of Rock and Roll' Great stuff. Moonlands- Female fronted dream-pop with some nice sometimes glacial shoegazey guitar which gives way to subtly fluid guitar lines on the more reflective numbers. Nice vocals too, cool. I Drink Therefore There's Darkness- got a Bunnymen, The Sound, Chameleons post punk thing going on and do it nice and tight with a bit of fire and some hard hitting guitar lines that uplift nicely- whisper it but this sounds a lot like 'Boy' era U2.Which us dogeared old post punkers all loved at the time so why notbit of Bloc Party in here too maybeneat. The Jangles Dreamy indie pop with the requisite jangle (as advertised).. insistently hooky tunes with some deft harmonizing and a very busy almost Reni-esque drummer, lot's of old school indie references in here Smiths, The Coral, La's, Stone Roses, scally psychedelia, Shack etc, all good then. The Extons- nice pulsating punky pop with an underplayed cool vocal Saints, Buzzcocks, bit of Stooges maybe. Guitars interweeve and wonk out a bit like Shelley and Diggle, some Strokes in here too. Swish.