Weezer - Weezer (The White Album)
4 Stars
This is no pastiche of so-called ‘classic’ Weezer.
29th March 2016
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Wolf Alice cement their place at the top with a triumphant Forum residency
Anyone who tells you Wolf Alice couldn’t have sold out a venue five times this size this weekend is only kidding themselves.
29th March 2016
The Big Moon - Cupid
The band’s alternative brand of romance sees them at their finest yet.
29th March 2016
Black Honey - All My Pride
Another scene in Black Honey’s perfect movie.
29th March 2016
LUH - Beneath the Concrete
At their best, LUH submerge melody in so much noise it cannot cope.
29th March 2016
A.K. Paul - Landcruisin
A.K. Paul’s first steps are fittingly future-facing.
27th March 2016
The Joy Formidable - Hitch
4 Stars
If the songwriting on ‘Hitch’ is, to coin an old music hack turn-of-phrase, ‘mature’, it’s also concise — in a good way.
25th March 2016
The Thermals - We Disappear
4 Stars
The Thermals can do empathy as well as they do energy — on all fronts, this is a stirring return to form.
25th March 2016
RJD2 - Dame Fortune
3 Stars
The album features some reliably masterful beat work and production, but falls somewhat short.
25th March 2016
White Denim - Stiff
3 Stars
The quartet are capable of just about anything they turn their hands to.
24th March 2016
Refused show they’ve lost none of their bite at furious Manchester show
The epicentre of a punk tornado.
24th March 2016
Woods - Morning Light
The Brooklyn group are latching onto something new.
24th March 2016
Yeasayer - Gerson’s Whistle
Yeasayer continue to swipe right on every sonic texture imaginable.
24th March 2016
Parquet Courts - Outside
Deep, complex, exciting — this is the sound of Parquet Courts in 2016.
24th March 2016
Whitney - Golden Days
Whitney capture so much at once, walking a beautifully balanced tightrope.
23rd March 2016
TRAAMS prove themselves masters among mayhem at Birmingham gig
Straight-up angst has never sounded so sweet.
21st March 2016
Biffy Clyro - Wolves of Winter
A more assured Biffy Clyro, spitting venom in every direction.
21st March 2016
Primal Scream - Chaosmosis
4 Stars
More than anything it proves that having fun and doing exactly what you feel like is never going out of style.
18th March 2016
Lust for Youth - Compassion
3 Stars
It’s a purposeful record that shows a trio holding on to the makings of something quite special.
18th March 2016
Liima - ii
3 Stars
It’s a project that serves as a refreshing dive into experimentation and spontaneity post-Efterklang.
18th March 2016
Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
3 Stars
It’s comfortable, casual and — as is Iggy — a little bit weird at times.
18th March 2016
Savages tear down the fourth wall at the Roundhouse
They bring down every barrier with a defiant, connection-hungry roar.
18th March 2016
Shura - Touch (Four Tet remix)
Kieran Hebden breathes yet more oomph into pop’s own Peter Pan — the flying-high song that never gets old.
18th March 2016
Mura Masa - What If I Go?
Cutting like a razor-sharp blade, Alex Crossan has crafted his hardest cutting banger yet.
18th March 2016
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