David Griffiths

Shoegaze pioneers LOOP underwhelm on second release of comeback era

March 25, 2022

80s shoegaze pioneers Loop return with the second album of their post-reformation era, Sonancy, which might sound better live than it does on record.

COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW forges link between sensory experience & the intangibility of memory

March 23, 2022

This slim novel is told from the point of view of an unnamed woman who meets with her mother for a trip to Japan. As they explore Tokyo and Kyoto and visit art galleries and restaurants

Genre misfits MELT YOURSELF DOWN excel themselves on fourth, heavier album

February 25, 2022

Pray For Me I Don't Fit In is a welcome return for jazz/dance/punk/kitchen sink experimentalists Melt Yourself Down

New HISTORY OF DEATH volume, THIS MORTAL COIL is more affirming than morbid

February 24, 2022

Despite the literally morbid title, there’s an optimistic feel throughout Andrew Doig’s new volume on the history of death, This Mortal Coil.

“The UK is having an existential crisis I can’t see it survive” – comedian Mark Thomas on Wales, nationalism, BLM… oh, and his new show

February 12, 2022

One of the least compromising comedians in the UK, Mark Thomas doesn't mince his words speaking to David Griffiths about Welsh culture, English nationalism, BLM and, eventually, his new show.

Region: South Wales

CARIBOU’s long-awaited live return to Cardiff dazzles as COVID restrictions lift

January 31, 2022

On the day restrictions were lifted in Cardiff and live music returned to Wales, Caribou got the party started again.

Region: South Wales

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

September 24, 2021

Unlikely reggae covers selected by Don Letts; kick-ass American rock and country women Melissa Etheridge and Mickey Guyton; Bristol jazzers Run Logan Run and Vangelis soundtracking a mission to Jupiter, like he was born to.

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

September 8, 2021

Punk rock tour diaries, Black Mirror-esque speculative fiction, thoughts on cultural and racial dividing lines in Britain, photographs from Troubles-era Northern Ireland, and a couple who encounter uncanny situations when they travel to adopt a child.

Shoegaze pioneers LOOP underwhelm on second release of comeback era

COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW forges link between sensory experience & the intangibility of memory

Genre misfits MELT YOURSELF DOWN excel themselves on fourth, heavier album

New HISTORY OF DEATH volume, THIS MORTAL COIL is more affirming than morbid

“The UK is having an existential crisis I can’t see it survive” – comedian Mark Thomas on Wales, nationalism, BLM… oh, and his new show

CARIBOU’s long-awaited live return to Cardiff dazzles as COVID restrictions lift

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW BOOKS REVIEWED | FEATURE

THIS WEEK’S NEW ALBUMS REVIEWED | FEATURE

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