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2 weeks ago | 
beatsperminute.com | Tom Williams
[Grand Jury Music; 2025]Edgar Degas’s depiction of ballet dancers stand among his most popular and enduring paintings, capturing delicate movement in vivid watercolour. But behind their tasteful aesthetic are allusions to the harsh realities faced by such dancers in the late 19th century – sexualised by audiences and forced into prostitution when they were off the stage.
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1 month ago | 
beatsperminute.com | Tom Williams
[Dear Life Records; 2025]In the social media age, it’s increasingly rare to find an album whose location of origin is imminently obvious. For all the benefits of genre-blending and the unparalleled ease with which we can access music from all over the world, one side effect has been the growing prevalence of music that feels placeless.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
chorus.fm | Tom Williams |Anthony Altamura |Drew Dijorio |Williams states |Jason Tate
Stray From the Path – “Kubrick Stare” VideoStray From the Path have shared the video for “Kubrick Stare.” Drew Dijorio, vocals; Tom Williams, guitar; Anthony Altamura, bass; and Craig Reynolds,drums — have fired off the video for the ferocious new single "Kubrick Stare."Watch it here. In conjunction with the new song and visual, the band is pleased to announce that it has signed with SharpTone Records.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
beatsperminute.com | Rob Hakimian |John Wohlmacher |Andy Johnston |Steve Forstneger |John Amen |Kyle Kohner | +10 more
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Tom Williams
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
beatsperminute.com | Tom Williams
[Dead Oceans; 2024]Cassandra Jenkins’ third solo studio album My Light, My Destroyer wasn’t supposed to exist. Jenkins, who was born into a musical family, released an EP and an album in the 2010s and performed as back up for Eleanor Friedberger and Craig Finn (The Hold Steady).
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
beatsperminute.com | Rob Hakimian |Andy Johnston |Ray Finlayson |Tom Williams
BPM’s Overlooked feature is something of an annual tradition. It’s an opportunity to give much-deserved praise to albums that may have slipped through the reviews net for any reason and put some shine on artists and records that may too have slipped under your own radars. Without the pressure of having to write a full review, we get to simply sing unmitigated praises for these albums that have brightened our first half of 2024 – and we hope they’ll bring some joy to your coming months too.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
beatsperminute.com | Tom Williams
[Hopeless Records; 2024]It’s been five years since we last heard from Dan Campbell’s hard-done by alter-ego, Aaron West. Designed as a “character study through music”, the three-album project has mainly served to showcase what happens to someone after life throws everything it’s got at someone. When we met Aaron a decade ago, he had recently suffered his father’s bereavement, his wife’s miscarriage and their subsequent divorce.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Tom Williams
There has been no shortage of much hyped post-punk bands to emerge in Britain in recent years—with acclaimed acts like Squid, Dry Cleaning, shame and Yard Act springing to mind immediately. For some, it would appear we long ago reached an over saturation point for these bands.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
kingstoncourier.co.uk | Tom Williams
Between 2023 and 2024, the number of vegans in the UK ballooned from 1.4 million to 2.5 million. Approximately 16% of the British population follows a meat-free diet, with even more meat-eaters wanting to make the switch. Bustling crowds at a recent artisan plant-based market in Kingston’s Ancient Market showed that the plant-based revolution is well and truly in action.
