So it has been a month since my last post, but Hamish and Lauren have kindly taken up the slack showing off some new acts. Either way, a month is a long time with blog music, leaving me with a whole stack of great music that you need to hear. Another mixtape then? yup. And it is full to the brim with fantastic new music.

Department of Eagles produce some laid back schizophrenic sounds that shouldn’t fit together at all, but somehow smoothed into a coherent foot tapping pop song under …

Hazel Winter – ‘Situation Normal Then’
Album released 12th January 2009
Death Row Bride Records
Former Blue Aeroplane and one of Bristol’s most cherished musicians Hazel Winter releases her brand new album ‘Situation Normal Then’ on the 12th January 2009.
Having previously released two solo albums to wide-spread critical acclaim (see press quotes below), Hazel Winter joins forces with familiar Bristol cohort (Adrian Utley, Portishead, who looked after much of the production duties) to pen an album of nourish guitar blues and raucous folk rock.
Alongside Bristol-based fiddler Gina Griffin, banjo player Joff Lowson, and …

Far from my usual musical tastes, I must admit that when I first picked up a copy of Rasmus Faber’s ‘Everything Is Alright’, I didn’t really expect to be impressed. This assumption, however, was completely wrong.
This set of remixes is clever and artistic. The versions of ‘Everything Is Alright’ are completely distinct from one another, yet clearly linked and still pleasingly recognisable. We are guided through the same song expressed in many different ways, each appealing from its own unique direction – from beauty to an almost audio-erotic feel, there’s …

Lou Cowell is a television presenter, author, Reiki master, and co-founder of a wildlife organisation. Impressive. Now she’s trying her hand at being a singer-songwriter, and one might say surprisingly, is very good at it.
This debut studio album, descriptively entitled ‘I…um…’ is fantastic. Filled with epic piano-heavy ballads, Cowell’s sound encompasses the epic beauty of artists like Sarah McLachlan alongside the raw feel of edgier artists like Alanis Morissette. To top all that off, Cowell possesses a quality I can only describe as Britishness; and it works brilliantly.
Despite my comparisons …