Music

By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) Coldplay. Coldplay, Coldplay, Coldplay, with their tepid ear porridge and the reappropriated worldliness of the proudest gap year knobhead. We aren't big fans of Coldplay at TLE, and as it turns out, neither are you, really. Following the announcement of the band’s fourth time headlining at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, people across the UK took to Twitter to express their anger. This prompted international ticket reselling platform, Ticketbis, to invite 1,000 Brits to play a simple game...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Studio 32 Music.  We’ve gone a bit weird this week, maybe as a result of seeing Nurse With Wound live over the weekend, but whatever the reason, I like it. Some old classics in there like the Gimmik track from odd bleepy label Toytronic, a very peculiar track from Simone White and Kassem Mosse called ‘Flowers In May’ and some Toru Takemitsu...

Duncan James, an art director at a London based advertising agency, is spending a year capturing the lives of Mods and Mod culture.

Placebo will be heading out on a world tour in October to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of their platinum selling debut album ’Placebo’. The first leg of the ’20 Years of Placebo’ tour kicks off in Denmark on October 13th 2016 and runs through to Wembley Arena in London on December 15th 2016.  Further dates for 2017 will be revealed later. The band promise a set list spanning their whole back catalogue. Brian Molko teased: “Let's just...

Sylosis, Electric Ballroom, London, 7.3.16 Support: Decapitated, The Kind Is Blind All photos copyright of Rich Broome Photography The Kind Is Blind Decapitated Decapitated Sylosis Find more of Rich's work at richbroomemusicphotography.weebly.com

Holly ‘Låpsley’ Fletcher first left an impression on me with her vocals and production on ‘Station’ and ‘Painter’. With funding from PRS for Music Foundation she has been able to develop her minimal but stunning electronic production, vocal experimentation and live setup. ‘Station’ is delicate and emotionally powerful. Låpsley uses her own vocals, pitched down, as harmonies to create the sound of an androgynous voice. The track’s vocals grow throughout; the lyrics “Cause I could walk you back to the...

In celebration of International Women's Day we've put together an unrelentingly awesome playlist of the female acts rocking our world at TLE. These range from the matriarchs who paved the way for a strong female presence in the music industry, right up to the new blood pushing the envelope at the forefront of the 2016 music scene. This is by no means an exhaustive list, and if you spot a glaring omission then please feel free to add to the playlist or...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Studio 32 Music. All I've been listening to this week is jazz and Steve Mason, which will become very apparent when you play this list. I discovered a great album by Matthew Halsall and the Gondwana Orchestra which is pretty straight on the first disc, but moves into some wonderful astral jazz on the second with a tribute to one of...

It’s been four years… but now Francis, a Swedish folk quintet, are back with their second full-length album Marathon. Co-produced by the band and Nicolas Vernhes (The War on Drugs, Bjork, Dirty Projectors), the album is soaked in delayed guitars and Petra Mases’ melancholy vocals. Staying true to Scandinavian indie pop the album is full of natural themes, such as ‘Horses’ and ‘Winters Wind’. The band says themselves that pretty much every song is about “children, divorce or love. But...