Ross Horton

3 days ago | musicomh.com | Ross Horton

The TV On The Radio frontman’s highly accomplished, elegantly performed, wonderfully sung debut solo album is the work of a master craftsmanThere was always something that stood out about TV On The Radio, especially compared to their more raucous peers – Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, The Strokes et al. They seemed more composed, more mature, more ‘put together’… more complete?

2 weeks ago | musicomh.com | Ross Horton

The Newcastle outfit’s fifth album swaggers right up to the edge of oblivion and does a stupid little danceWe’ve long been supporters of Newcastle’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs (Pigs x7 from here on) here at musicOMH, so the announcement of their fifth album, Death Hilarious, was as tantalising as a Solero on a mid-July day.

3 weeks ago | musicomh.com | Ross Horton

A home crowd witnesses a perfect gig showing off Postindustrial Hometown Blues from Joe Hicklin and Callum MoloneyOw am ya bab? If ya weren’t at the Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath to see Big Special, ya missed a belter. It was one of them gigs where ya could feel summat in the air, like everybody knew they were about to see summat proper good. Local boys done good. The place was packed (sold out!), with mostly blokes all crammed in with pints in hand, shufflin’ forward as the lights went down.

3 weeks ago | musicomh.com | Ross Horton

Reckless, euphoric and relentless, this may be the most surprising record of Dan Bejar’s wonderful career so farDan’s Boogie is the 14th studio album by Destroyer (also known as ‘the Dan Bejar project’) and it follows – in 2022’s Labyrinthitis – one of the best of all the previous 13. The album before, Have We Met, was good too, but it served more as a capstone to the previous decade.

4 weeks ago | musicomh.com | Ross Horton

The black metallers are quieter now, more controlled. The tension is contained, the violence refined. Perhaps they’ve learned. Or grown tired. Perhaps they’ve just grownDeafheaven have made a name, perhaps a legend, for themselves in the blurred space where black metal once made normal folk tremble. The San Fransisco-formed outfit’s now-classic 2013 album Sunbather brought them praise, not for their howling at the black abyss, but by roaring in pinkness, in life.