GIRLI - Girls Get Angry Too
With so much bullshit to be angry about in the world right now, who’s got time for cool, calm and collected, anyway?
12th April 2016
Reviews
PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project
3 Stars
This isn’t the best or the bravest music of her career, but Harvey continues to pave new ground.
11th April 2016
Teleman - Brilliant Sanity
4 Stars
Loaded with more jingles than a sleigh at Christmas, ‘Brilliant Sanity’ is synth pop at its most intentionally addictive.
8th April 2016
Tim Hecker - Love Streams
3 Stars
Hecker has once again shaped something that feels weighty and important, shafts of light illuminating the dark landscape.
8th April 2016
Future of the Left - the peace & truce of future of the left
4 Stars
This is a band tight enough and confident enough to know they can take anything, and anybody, on.
8th April 2016
M83 - Junk
2 Stars
What ‘Junk’ lacks alongside its bonkers, anything-goes mentality is any real purpose.
8th April 2016
Frightened Rabbit - Painting of a Panic Attack
3 Stars
This album may declare itself a painting, but there’s a much bigger picture to see here.
7th April 2016
Massive Attack hypnotise at BST Hyde Park headline
Tonight the acts here attempt to unite people, even for a moment.
7th April 2016
The 1975 and Bastille weather storms to close Open’er 2016
It’s storms ahoy as Chvrches, Grimes and Pharrell also take to the event’s stages.
7th April 2016
Deftones - Gore
4 Stars
Balancing their sound on a knife edge, this is an album that sees their own heaviness redefined.
5th April 2016
Parquet Courts - Human Performance
4 Stars
A tightrope walk between impulse and laser-point precision.
4th April 2016
Chvrches prove themselves arena titans at home town SSE Hydro headline
Tonight the trio truly hit home… several thousand times over.
4th April 2016
Anna Meredith, ICA, London
She’s charming in her lack of pretence, and it’s that warmth that somehow lends ‘Varmints’ yet another guise.
4th April 2016
Bleached - Welcome The Worms
3 Stars
All too often ‘Welcome The Worms’ lacks the bite that’d make it Very Good Indeed.
1st April 2016
Pet Shop Boys - Super
4 Stars
Frequent, frantic builds and drops, whooshes and exultant crescendos abound throughout.
1st April 2016
Frankie Cosmos - Next Thing
4 Stars
Laying everything on the line, Frankie Cosmos scrutinise every ounce of who they are and what they know.
1st April 2016
Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling
4 Stars
‘Silent Earthling’ is far from an reinvention: it’s simply Three Trapped Tigers adapting and tinkering.
1st April 2016
Mogwai - Atomic
4 Stars
The biggest achievement of ‘Atomic’ is that it can stand on its own musical merit.
1st April 2016
Andrew Bird - Are You Serious
3 Stars
This is the strongest Bird has sounded in some time, but it’s not quite a monumental breakthrough.
1st April 2016
Yeasayer - Amen & Goodbye
4 Stars
A brilliant, breathless, great big bundle of weird.
31st March 2016
Explosions In The Sky - The Wilderness
2 Stars
Explosions hit autopilot when they enter uncharted airspace
31st March 2016
Pumarosa - Cecile
‘Cecile’ is a yelping net of big ideas — and it’s impossible not to get caught up.
31st March 2016
The Last Shadow Puppets - Everything You’ve Come To Expect
2 Stars
The classical instrumentation isn’t the only relic of the past clinging onto The Last Shadow Puppets.
30th March 2016
Teen Suicide - It’s the Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir the Honeypot
3 Stars
The Maryland clan haven’t left any path untrodden in their tenure as Teen Suicide.
29th March 2016
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.