Is it dream pop? Shoegaze? Grunge? No idea, but I adore it. It’s so immediate. The first time I played it, it was as if I’d been listening to it all of my life.
It brought back memories of being a lovestruck teenager from more than four decades ago. I can just play it and float back to my youth – the good bits, fortunately – although it also soothed away some of the more traumatic episodes. I managed to catch them live, and it was glorious.
David High, St Ives, Cambridgeshire I’m in my dotage (well, 64) but I’m absolutely thrilled that there is still music that fascinates and excites me. This lot sound like they’ve been having a sneaky peek at my own record collection: a dash of Canadian singer Veda Hille, a touch of Brit rocker Carina Round, even the whiff of Thea Gilmore’s recent spoken word pieces, and an almost prog-rock approach to structure. It’s a beautiful, bold and totally involving album, and I can’t wait to hear more.
Adam Kimmel, London If majestic, hypnotic, minimalist doom metal settings of poems reflecting on themes of female alienation and challenging societal norms sounds intriguing, then please do yourself a favour and check out Big Brave’s latest album, A Chaos of Flowers. Even if this description doesn’t sound like your bag, I guarantee you’ll not have heard anything else like it this year – or possibly ever. It’s an astonishing work, full of beauty, pain, power and fragility.
Utterly captivating and compelling. And more than .
