South-coast post-folkers The B Of the Bang deliver a mixed-up melange of multi-instrumental trash and treasure on their debut album Beginning. Middle. End.

Debut single “Alfred, Light the Fires” sees Portsmouth’s The B of the Bang evoking a long-lost England; it’s very picturesque, but not so exciting.

The latest single from New York anti-folk new-New-Wavers Bear Hands is released by the Too Pure Records singles club… “What A Drag”? Not at all.

Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences – the new Nick Cave or the new Tom Waits? On the evidence of We Are Not Other People, Duncan Harris reckons “neither”.

Just when you thought it was safe to pick up your headphones … it’s another super-weird slice of nutter pop from Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences.

Fetch the brain-bleach, nurse! Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences are back with yet more twisted anti-folk-pop-post-punk weirdness.

Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences are either the ultimate in post-structuralist anti-rock … or simply a bit bloody odd.