Vagabon - Infinite Worlds
4 Stars
A sharply-executed jumble of fuzz-wrapped postcards and remembered snapshots.
24th February 2017
Reviews
Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
4 Stars
Los Campesinos! will always be able to express a certain character type better than most.
24th February 2017
Dirty Projectors - Dirty Projectors
4 Stars
A mechanical glitching puzzle of a record.
24th February 2017
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana
4 Stars
Rich, imaginative, and more than a little strange.
24th February 2017
Dams of the West - Youngish American
3 Stars
Vivid lyrics, lush melodies and Americana influences.
24th February 2017
Summer Moon - With You Tonight
3 Stars
A record blessed with inspired guitar licks and sumptuous melodies.
24th February 2017
Pissed Jeans - Why Love Now
4 Stars
An urgent, hard-driving assault.
24th February 2017
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - The Tourist
2 Stars
Far from the journey its designer hopes it to be.
24th February 2017
Tei Shi - How Far
Valerie Teicher’s debut will be worth every last second of impatient anticipation.
24th February 2017
Future - Selfish (ft. Rihanna)
The stand-out slow-burner on an album of shadowy, gloom-drenched rap.
24th February 2017
Lana Del Rey - Love
The new single seems to strike a particular chime with current events.
24th February 2017
Blaenavon - Alice Come Home
A crushing six-minute trip which shows the band as being equally capable of crafting devastating, sprawling journeys
24th February 2017
Girl Ray - Stupid Things
The track is as woozy and unwavered by potential consequences as those first all-encompassing days of an onsetting mega-crush.
24th February 2017
Arcade Fire - Creature Comfort
‘Creature Comfort’ doesn’t dial down the bonkers levels one jot.
23rd February 2017
Pale Waves - There’s A Honey
There’s nothing uncertain about where Pale Waves are heading.
21st February 2017
Estrons, The Crofters Rights, Bristol
Loud, fierce and dominant.
20th February 2017
VANT - Dumb Blood
4 Stars
On every single count, VANT have nailed it.
17th February 2017
Dutch Uncles - Big Balloon
4 Stars
Austerity, therapy, David Bowie’s brain and fried chicken.
17th February 2017
Shock Machine - Shock Machine
3 Stars
The shadow of his previous band looms heavy over the space age synths and shimmery pop hooks.
17th February 2017
Novella - Change of State
3 Stars
A deeply reflective album, both current and unmoored.
17th February 2017
Meat Wave - The Incessant
3 Stars
A brutally honest record.
17th February 2017
Pumarosa - Dragonfly
The new track solidifies the band as ones to keep both eyes on.
16th February 2017
Tegan and Sara, Roundhouse, London
Infectious synth pop designed for catharsis.
15th February 2017
Her’s - Speed Racer
Set your shoulders to ‘shimmy’ and let Her’s take you for some ’50s thrills.
15th February 2017
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.