The Exile

During the mid-'70s, the Rolling Stones remained massively popular, but their records suffered from Jagger's fascination with celebrity and Keith's worsening drug habit. By 1978, both punk and disco had swept the group off the front pages, and Some Girls was their fiery response to the younger generation…

The Winchester Club's decade-plus career has been gathering exponential steam of late. After wasting several years in near inactivity and repeatedly botched, even misplaced, recordings, the London-based shoegazers finally completed their independently released debut album, Brittania Triumphant, in 2007, then saw it reissued to great acclaim by the Exile on Mainstream label amidst tours in support of A Whisper in the Noise and Neurosis, plus a Roadburn festival appearance: not too shabby. Now the group simply have to prove that this sudden buzz was no fluke, beginning with their sophomore effort, Negative Liberty, which emerged in summer 2011 and reportedly drew inspiration from the cult BB2 documentary series The Trap, which, needless to say, may exclude listeners who have yet to watch the show from some of the conversation…