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London indie outfit This Is The Deep make wonderfully eccentric but catchy music. The Best is Yet to Come (Part 1) is a mini-album that plays at 45 RPM, whose eight songs mingle quirky post-punk dub-funk with something altogether poppier and frothier. They are unafraid of utilising quirky sound effects and stylings that, in others hands, might lead to a kitsch novelty factor, but in theirs the results range from outright pop to the skronk-punk-jazz abstraction of “Eyes on You” to a weird slowie to vaguely Talking Head-ish moments to the cinematic exotica of the title cut. Uncategorizable...

For the uninitiated, Kevin Cummins is one of rock’s (albeit not exclusively) foremost photographers. To anyone with a cursory knowledge of iconic imagery in music, his work will be familiar, having captured everyone from Joy Division to George Clinton. Last year he released a book of his work which chronicled the Britpop years (While We Were Getting High) during which he was the NME’s chief photographer and now, so as to give the book the chance to shine, under his name an accompanying compilation is being released. If you think you don’t need another Britpop compilation, think again. T...

Oasis were among those featured in Kevin Cummins’ 2020 book. Kevin Cummins has picked established favourites, b-sides, rare cuts and classic single edits from artists such as Oasis, Radiohead and New Order on a 71-track compilation which is accompanying his While We Were Getting High: Britpop And The ‘90s book. That book collected some of Cummins’ most recognisable work from a decade with the NME which kept his camera lens firmly fixed on the mid-90s music scene in Britain, and pretty much all of that era’s leading lights will be found on the Caught Beneath The Landslide compilation w...

Kevin Cummins: shooting punk, Joy Division, Oasis, Blur and many more February 2, 2021 Kevin Cummins Kevin Cummins was born in Manchester in 1953. He spent ten years as the chief photographer for NME, he has contributed to publications wordwide and he remains one of the UK’s foremost music and portrait photographers. See his website for more It’s little surprise that Kevin Cummins ended up as a photographer as he received a camera for his fifth birthday present and both his father and maternal grandfather had home darkrooms. After developing his own darkroom skills at a young age he studi...