Amy Morrice, Author at NME

Album Review: Hard-Fi – ‘Killer Sounds’

In 1949, Arthur Miller's seminal play Death Of A Salesman called time on the popular cultural dominance of the male. For the first time,...

Live Review: The Big Chill Festival

It may have a name that speaks of self-satisfied, smoothie-drinking mellowness, but be not fooled. Formerly a fuck-off rave-up known to insiders as ‘Hippygeddon’,...

Live Review: The Maccabees

Most bands debuting new material after a year holed up would dip a tentative two-song toe in the water. The Maccabees, though, tonight dive...

Album Review: CSS – ‘Liberation’

It seems almost perverse to think that CSS are celebrating their eighth birthday next month. The Brazilian quintet have always been music’s neon toddlers;...

Album Review: Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – ‘Mirror Traffic’

Be gone ye badly-dressed oiks with wacky hair, relocating to east London in the misguided hope of living your post-Pavement fantasies in sub-par slacker...

Album Review: Fionn Regan – ‘100 Acres Of Sycamore’

You know those people who moon out of train windows, in love with their own picturesque melancholy? Fionn Regan’s third album is like that....

Album Review: Ivyrise – ‘Ivyrise’

What are Ivyrise? The jagged riffs on ‘Line Up The Stars’ and the us-against-the-world fist-pumping chorus of ‘Too Much’ (not to mention the hair)...

Album Review: Cymbals Eat Guitars – ‘Lenses Alien’

While there’s a mass of slacker bands into ’90s alt-rock today, few venture beyond the usual influences. Luckily, Cymbals Eat Guitars are here to...

Album Review: The Wolfmen – ‘Married To The Eiffel Tower’

At 17, Marco Pirroni played guitar for Siouxsie Sioux at the 100 Club while Sid Vicious bashed the shit out of the drums. At...

Album Review: Razika – ‘Project 91’

This Scandinavian teen female four-piece make dreamy alt-pop. So, everyone, hold tight, maybe even look away for a line. Or at least close your...