My life in records page
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If you ever wished to buy your parents an album containing traces of electronica – and we're assuming here that your folks don't know the difference between... |
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One of the nominees we would certainly not be sorry to see walk away with tonight’s giant cheque at the Choice Music Prize ceremony,... |
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With his stunning new album Luminaire out next week (or tomorrow, Feb 25, for those in Ireland), we'll be devoting a little... |
Indiana native Joseph Denney first appeared on our radar last year when Make Mine (Gold Panda... |
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Somehow finding the time between producing the great and the good of Irish music - Crayonsmith, The Holy Roman Army, Babybeef and Adrian Crowley, to name but a few - as well as playing in the... |
It's fair to say that we've fallen pretty hard for the slinky beat-driven sounds of 21 year-old Will Wiesenfeld (aka Baths) in recent months. The... |
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In a month of high profile album releases, Moon Deluxe - the solo debut from ex-Titus Andronicus guitarist Andrew Cedermark - has outmuscled many a revered indie peer to hog the Ragged Words... |
Reviewing album after album after album means that once one reaches the ‘done’ pile, it tends to collect a lot of dust. Occasionally though, there are records like Luke Abbott’s... |
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Adam Pierce - switch those letters around you have Mice Parade - has been releasing constantly interesting music under his anagrammed moniker for over a decade now and returns later this month... |
Ragged Words CANNOT get enough of Solar Bears and their masterful September-due full debut She Was Coloured In, and well we're just gonna keep on featuring the guys until you can hear... |
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Okay so we weren't all that crazy about Tokyo Police Club's new album Champ but when A Lesson In Crime... |
When former Mercury Rev man Jason Sebastian Russo swapped Brooklyn for the considerably smaller English village of Steventon early last year, Common Prayer's debut album There Is A Mountain... |
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When reviewing Javelin's full debut No Más, we told you that you'd be unlikely to find many... |
Having spoken to Adrian Crowley twice in the last couple of years, it was high time we asked the now Dublin based... |
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Kicking about their native Denmark since 2003, Oh No Ono's otherworldly pop first caught Ragged Words' attention when the fine folk at The Leaf Label signed the Copenhagen-residing five-piece... |
Perhaps best known for producing everything Aesop Rock has released in the last decade, New Yorker Tony Simon, AKA Blockhead, has also sneaked out a number of albums of his own. The Music Scene,... |
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With his two-disc collection of cover versions All Dressed Up And Smelling Of Strangers released last week, it seem a pretty apt time to ask Texan-born Micah P Hinson to detail for us his life in... |
With one of the best records of the year - The Vert Best's Warm Heart Of Africa - out on September 14, Johan Hugo, one half of Radioclit, which in turn makes up one half of The Very Best (still... |
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"This is it. It all stops here. Once I heard this record, it was all over." says Ben Chasny, the prolific Californian behind ... |
After a nine year break of domestic bliss, Seattle-based mum and former Sufjan Stevens bandmate... |
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12 years after appearing on Big Dada's first ever release, sometime New Flesh and Gamma frontman Juice Aleem's debut album Jerusalaam Come is out on the influencial London label this week. To... |
Having been wowed by Indiana native DM Stith's full-length debut - the equal parts haunting and beautiful Heavy Ghost - and subsequently quite taken by his... |
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One third of Our Brother The Native - and the third who provides vocals, samples, guitar, harmonium, sax - Joshua Bertram gives Ragged Words a walk through his precociously young life in records (... |
Having released the "incredibly entertaining and endlessly playable" Flick The Vs last month, King Creosote is currently... |
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With California's Crytacize releasing second LP Mythomania next week (May 4) on Asthmatic Kitty, guitarist and ex-Deerhoff Chris Cohen (on the left... clearly) tells Ragged Words about his life in... |
On the eve of the release of The Leisure Society's debut album The Sleeper, singer Nick Hemming (pictured, far left), gives Ragged Words a guide through his life in records. |
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The Expert - picture right and the other half of the twice Choice Music Prize nominated Messiah J & The Expert (read Messiah J's LIR here) - gives Ragged Words a chronological guide through... |
Messiah J - picture right and one half, obviously, of the now twice Choice Music Prize nominated Messiah J & The Expert - gives a chronological guide through his life in 10 records. The Expert... |
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Before Alberta four-piece Women's s/t debut is released in the UK on Jan 19, Patrick Flegel (guitar, vocals and third from left) gives Ragged Words a chronological guide through his life in a... |
With Vacilando Territory Blues, J.Tillman's new album out on Monday, the Fleet Foxes drummer gives Ragged Words a chronological guide through his life in ten records and artists |
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LA-based, Massachusetts-bred MC K-The-I??? gives Ragged Words a chronological guide through his life in ten records. K-The-I???'s new album Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow is out in the UK now via... |
