Latest Posts
- Adult Pop
Video Vault – Cosmo Sheldrake
Cosmo Sheldrake’s music video for his new single “Pilocene” sees him take off and play the track live in a…
- Acoustic
Katie Mullins – Three Songs Review
Vocal Folk Perfection Katie Mullens returns to music after a period of time away healing her voice that had been…
- Acoustic
Aniseed – Geranium EP Review
Dreamy folktronica and ambient crossover debut Aniseed’s debut EP “Geranium” introduces us to the East Anglia based musician and producer…
- Acoustic
Fanna-Fi Allah – Muraqaba Review
Exploring the language of love Fanna-Fi Allah have been gaining millions of views on Youtube with their insight into their…
- Ambient
Paleowolf – Archetypal Review
Shamanic Ambience Dark ambient is a very wide catch-all term of phrase that can cover a multitude of sounds and Paleowolf’s…
- Alt Rock
Introducing… Mystic Peach
Mystic Peach are a rock trio from the South Coast of the UK and they take what’s best of psyche-rock…
- Alt Rock
Introducing… Beauty In Chaos
Beauty In Chaos is an interesting collaborative effort that centres around guitarist Michael Ciravolo. Ciravolo is the through blood and across the…
- Baroque Pop
Tunng – Songs You Make At Night Review
The perfect example of Folktronica Tunng have quietly become one of my favourite folktronica bands over the past few years.…
- Music
Higher Plain Music now has a Facebook page
Responding to feedback from record labels, artists, bands and readers, I’ve opened up a simple Facebook page for Higher Plain…
- Alt Rock
Introducing… Nanami Ozone
Sometimes I need a really gutsy, riff or chord driven grungy rock band. It’s what turned me onto Nirvana as…
- Adult Pop
Elza – Nothing’s Wrong Review
If The Cranberries were Latin and likes bluesy pop Independent self-released alt-pop-rock artist Elza launched her new album “Nothing’s Wrong” last…
- Acoustic
Masakatsu Takagi – Mirai Original Soundtrack Review
When Japanese folk meets modern day playground Mamarou Hosoda’s most recent animation Mirai hit cinemas last week and it’s another…
- Alt Rock
Video Vault – Frauds
Frauds are a Croydon based post-punk duo who like to rock hard and roll around in complete lunacy. Their act…
- Alt Pop
Introducing… Peluché
Peluché are a London based trio that calls their music “trip jam”. For me, their new single “Figure Me Out”…
- Acoustic
Josh Alexander – Hiraeth Review
The deconstruction of a piano to digital noise Josh Alexander’s classically trained pianist skills are front and centre in his…
- Ambient
Gamardah Fungus – Crossing the Wasteland Review
Desert Waves of Peaceful Music Ukrainian duo Gamardah Fungus create experimental ambient sessions and their latest album is a drone-like…
- Alternative
Dead Can Dance – Dionysus Review
A worldly album that’s pretty suite Approaching their ninth studio album, Dead Can Dance continue to move around different time…
- Chamber Folk
Nadine Khouri – A New Dawn Review
Khouri Can British-Lebanese singer/songwriter Nadine Khouri has been gathering momentum with her sultry but delicate atmospheric folk music and with her…
- Adult Pop
Introducing… Soft People
I’ve featured husband and wife duos on Higher Plain Music before but today I’ve discovered the first Husband-husband duo that…
- Adult Pop
Introducing… Parabola West
Parabola West walks a really excellent line for me between baroque pop and electronica pop without it ever feeling cheesy…
- Alt Pop
Elsiane and Rich Shapero – Rin, Tongue and Dorner Review
Scoring a novel with your own album and sound Writing a soundtrack for a novel must be quite a challenging…
- Audio Visual
Cinematic Storm Chasing with Mike Oblinski
Occasionally I pop up some audio/visual content that often revolves around my love of time-lapse photography and for some time…
- Music
Soap&Skin – From Gas To Solid / You Are My Friend Review
What happens when the haunted become grateful? Soap&Skin’s musical career to date has always been about having shimmers of beauty…
- Alt Pop
Helga Arvesten – I’m Here Review
Carnival Theatrics of the Darker Kind Having released a few separate stand-alone singles last year following her excellent 2016 release…
- Abstract
Tim Shiel – Glowing Pains Music From The Garden Betweens Review
Creating fragments of memories from fragments of music An absolutely beautiful puzzle platform game, The Gardens Between takes two children’s memories,…
