Higher Plain Music

Raised in Southeast Kansas, singer-songwriter Lisa Michelle Anderson has spent time in Australia and Greece before returning to her American roots. All those experiences have folded elements of desert folk rock into her musicality, giving her Americana-rock a certain twang that other musicians don’t have. Lisa’s upcoming album ‘Spend a Little Time’ is her most emotional and p...

Pianist, guitarist, and singer-songwriter Gregory Douglass is someone I often describe as one of music’s best-kept secrets. Higher Plain Music has been championing his music since discovering him with his 2009 album ‘Battler‘ (excuse the ill-forma...

Chamber music with a brutalistic approach.

Gus Ferguson has led a varied life. In the 80’s and 90’s, he toured with Dead Can Dance, Test Dept, ICU, and many other bands, providing his string skills to the bands. Then, Gus moved into sound installations for Scottish events befor...

Guildford- and Brighton-based alternative band Aqualine return with their single ‘Stupid Brain’. It isn’t often I borrow directly from press releases, but Aqualine describe the track as “The Bend’s era of Radiohead if they had a sense of humour”. I think that is spot on. It’s shoegazey, with that 90’s alternative grunge smear hiding underneath. Aqualine aren’t always straight...

When faun folk embraces their dark metal era.

Following on from their superb 2024 self-titled album, London-based i Häxa returns with ‘Oceans’, a 3-track single that heralds a new era of dark folk with explosions of metal. If you haven’t experienced i Häxa before, the duo permeates the same ether an...