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Writer Profile: Allan Struthers

Allan Struthers
Allan Struthers
Location: Manchester
Beard: No
Tattoos: No
Favourite Tipple: Sambucca
1st Music Purchase: Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Best Famous Beard: Terry Riley
Guilty Pleasure: Calvin Harris

My recent activity

Battles / Dross Glop
Album Review
Battles / Dross Glop
If you aren't aware of Battles by now, it's probably about time you just gave up on the whole 'listening to music as a hobby' thing. The prolific American 4 piece (now reduced to a 3 piece) have built up a name for themselves via...
Breton / Salford Islington Mill
Gig
With their debut album complete and already picking up a lot of positive reactions from the critics, you could perhaps describe Breton's European tour dates as a sort of victory lap. And it's a lap they're fully worthy of embarking upon...
Pacific UV - Weekends
Album Review
Pacific UV / Weekends
After carving a niche for themselves in the dreampop/shoegaze mould over the past decade, with 2 critically acclaimed albums and a number of EP's, Pacific UV return with their third full length record, Weekends. It's a record that takes...
Saturday Night Gym Club / How to Build a Life Raft
EP Review
Saturday Night Gym Club / How to Build a Life Raft
As current trends in electronic music become harder and harder to pin down, it feels as though the indie music scene is attempting to follow suit, leading to a sudden increase in the number of laptops and synths present in dingy basement venues up...
Edleigh
Band of the week
The ease of accessibility to music production software is somewhat of a double edged sword as far as i can see. On the one hand, it allows thousands people across the world to express themselves creatively at little to no cost other than just their...
Ninetails - Ghost Ride the Whip
EP Review
Ninetails / Ghost Ride the Whip
Synths be gone! Math-rock peddling Liverpool four piece Ninetails aren't spending their time twiddling with oscillators and playing with laptops. They're too busy cultivating uplifting, quality guitar music. A long lost past time a quick...
TTT - SWN festival Highlights.
In Depth
Perhaps the festival most worthy of UK SXSW comparisons, the 4-day long citywide party, Swn Festival, is a hotbed for emerging musical talent. Nestled in the Welsh capital, swn (pronounced ‘soon’) festival takes over the city from the...
Still Corners
Band of the week
Ethereal, eerie, and minimalist. London girl/boy duo, Still Corners have written a selection of mesmerisingly beautiful pop songs, then blurred and smudged every little sound within them to create something both instantly memorable and...
Solid Gold Dragons
Band of the week
With the all-encompassing musical hulk that is the internet shaping the way we listen to and consume music more and more, speculation over whether or not music scenes would become a thing of the past has also grown. Where styles of music were once...
BOTW - Dent May
Band of the week
What happens when you take your bog standard indie music sensibilities, throw in a saxophone filled with optimistic boogie and shake it like a baby? Well,aside from having an overwrought and slightly nonsensical metaphor, you get the musical...
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