As much as I’d like to see Puressence as yet another death rattle from the bloated carrion of northern indie, I can’t help but feel there’s another dusty, swaggering zombie waiting to lurch from the ...

Produced by the wizardly Andy Macpherson, Don’t Forget To Remember, the band’s fourth album, presents a set of songs that burrow deep into the heart and stay there. Male anguish, that priceless pop ...

Hailed as genius by their mates, ignored by everybody else, Manchester’s Puressence never understood why they didn’t follow Doves and Elbow to the higher reaches of furrowed-brow masculine rock. They ...